Surveillance of potential hosts and vectors of scrub typhus in Taiwan

BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is a lethal infectious disease vectored by larval trombiculid mites (i.e. chiggers) infected with Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT) and recent decades have witnessed an emergence of scrub typhus in several countries. Identification of chigger species and their vertebrate hosts is...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Chi-Chien, Lee, Pei-Lung, Chen, Chun-Hsung, Wang, Hsi-Chieh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26626287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1221-7

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