Different methods for detection are recognized for different acariasis infections.

For intestinal acariasis with symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and phohemefecia (is this hemafecia?)

Human acariasis with mites can occur in the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, urinary tracts and other organs which not have been well-studied.

Since mites belong to the arachnid subclass Acari (also called Acarina), another term for mite infestation is acariasis.

However, based on this mites life style as a predator on other mite species (e.g. the earlier mentioned Dermanyssus gallinae), it is highly unlikely to be the cause of Acariasis.

For pulmonary acariasis, the presence of mites in sputum is determined by identifying the presence and number of mites in the sputum of patients with respiratory symptoms.

A 2008 study identified high prevalence rates of parasitic infections in the poorest areas of the United States - potentially up to 100 million infections of Acariasis, Chagas Disease, Cysticercosis, Echinococcosis, Toxocariasis, Toxoplasmosis, Trichomoniasis, or Strongyloidiasis.

Jacques Euzéby wrote 25 scientific books and hundreds of scientific papers, dedicated to the epidemiology and general parasitology of parasitic diseases, to helmintoses (helminthiasis), nematodoses, cestodoses, trematodoses, protozooses, acariases (acariasis) and entomoses, to mycoses to parasitic zoonoses.