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Abundance & distribution of trombiculid mites & Orientia tsutsugamushi, the vectors & pathogen of scrub typhus in rodents & shrews collected from Puducherry & Tamil Nadu, India

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Human cases of scrub typhus are reported every year from Puducherry and adjoining areas in southern India. However, information on the presence of causative agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi, and its vectors is lacking. Hence, the objective of the study was to find out the v...

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Autores principales: Candasamy, Sadanandane, Ayyanar, Elango, Paily, Kummankottil, Karthikeyan, Patricia Anitha, Sundararajan, Agatheswaran, Purushothaman, Jambulingam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28474626
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1390_15