Table 2 Summary of skin prick tests and serum IgE tests among mite-induced allergies in different regions of Malaysia

East Malaysia

321

High school students. Chinese only (100%)

D. pteronyssinus (60.5)

-

Leung and Ho (1994) [3]

Central

316

> 7 years old

With AR only

D. pteronyssinus (82.0)

House dust (81.0)

-

Ho et al. (1995) [31]

Central

90

6–50 years old

With AR only

-

D. pteronyssinus (79.0)

D. farinae (78.0)

Kook & Soong (1995) [32]

Central

148

> 17 years old

With AR only

House dust mites (66.8)

D. pteronyssinus (72.3)

D. farinae (50.6)

-

Gendeh et al. (2000) [33]

Central

141

0–12 years old

With AR only

House dust mites (69.5)

-

Gendeh et al. (2004) [34]

East Coast

90

18–66 years old

With AR only

House dust mites (80.0)

-

Asha’ari et al. (2010) [35]

Central

580

5–12 years old

With AR only

D. pteronyssinus (63.9)

D. farinae (60.4)

B. tropicalis (59.7)

-

Zahedi et al. (2011) [36]

Northern

100

> 18 years old

With & without AR

Chinese majority (70.0%)

-

D. farinae (35.0)

Glycycometus malaysiensis (37.0)

Chong et al. (2015) [37]

Central

463

18–59 years old

Malay majority (97.8%)

D. pteronyssinus (50.3)

D. farinae (49.0)

-

Lim et al. (2015) [25]

Central

102

0–84 years old

With AR only

D. pteronyssinus (78.4)

D. farinae (77.5)

Blomia sp. (69.0)

-

Nadzrah et al. (2015) [38]

Central

192

< 2 years old (35 children)

2–10 years old (157 children)

With allergies

-

< 2 years old

D. pteronyssinus (23.1)

B. tropicalis (16.7)

2–10 years old

D. pteronyssinus (63.3)

B. tropicalis (63.2)

Yadav & Naidu (2015) [39]

Northern

93

18–60 years old

Atopic population

House dust mites (78.5)

-

Kttafah et al. (2020) [40]

Central

470

14 years old only

High school students

With and without AR

D. pteronyssinus (51.9)

D. farinae (47.9)

-

Mohd Isa et al. (2020) [12]