Revisión de registros históricos de los ácaros del polvo doméstico en países del Pacífico y Caribe continental en Latinoamérica.

Objective: Review the historical records of house dust mites in the Pacific and continental Caribbean countries of Latin America. Methods: A systematic review was carried out, adapting the PRISMA method, in digital repositories using a combination of the terms in Spanish: "domestic mites" "allergia" and in English: "dust mites" "allergy" with the names of the countries "Costa Rica", "Panama", "Venezuela", "Colombia", "Ecuador" and "Peru", between 1970 and 2022. The inclusion criteria were: presence of the mite species, city or municipality, country, height above the sea level and year. A database was built in Microsoft Excel Office 365®. Maps were created using QGIS 3.30 geographic information systems, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: From the search and identification, 3,959 references were obtained, of which 133 were considered potentially eligible; Of these, 45 met the inclusion criteria, and only 32 presented records of domestic mite species. Historically there were 424 records and 27 species (18 genera and 9 families). The countries with the most studies and records were Colombia (14 and 242), Panama (8 and 64) and Peru (5 and 74). 66% (281/424) of the records were of the species Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (81), followed by Blomia tropicalis (58), D. farinae (40), Chortoglyphus arcuatus (39), Cheyletus sp. (33) and Euroglyphus maynei (30). The species with the greatest altitudinal range were D. pteronyssinus, (2-4800 masl) and E. maynei (2- 3399 masl). The D. siboney mite, considered endemic to Cuba, was reported in Colombia and Panama. Conclusions: A synthesis was presented on the historical geographical and altitudinal distribution of house dust mites in countries of the Pacific and continental Caribbean of Latin America, which in turn allowed us to determine the species with the greatest records, highlighting those of importance in allergology. These findings are an input for acarological surveillance in public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]