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Innovative Distance Learning Tool for Morphological Identification of Chigger Mites (Actinotrichida) as Vectors of Scrub Typhus: A Pilot Study

Scrub typhus, a disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, affects more than one billion people globally with an average fatality rate of 6%. Humans are accidentally infected through the bite of trombiculid mite larvae (chiggers). Chiggers feed on hosts’ extracellular fluid for survival and developme...

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Autores principales: Kumlert, Rawadee, Pawestri, Aulia Rahmi, Linsuwanon, Piyada, Morand, Serge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32260591
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020055