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microorganism

Acarus

also: tyroglyphus

a genus of mites. The flour mite, A. siro (T. farinae), is nonparasitic, but its presence in flour can cause a severe allergic dermatitis in flour-mill workers.

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug acarus