A New Ecology for Scrub Typhus Associated with a Focus of Antibiotic Resistance in Rice Farmers in Thailand

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 551-555

  Tanskul, Panita ^a   Linthicum, Kenneth J ^a   Watcharapichat, Pochaman ^a   Phulsuksombati, Duangporn ^a   Mungviriya, Siriporn ^b   Ratanatham, Supaporn ^b   Suwanabun, Nantavadee ^a   Sattabongkot, Jetsumon ^a   Watt, George ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chiggers; Ecology; Epidemiology; Leptotrombidium; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BANDICOTA INDICA; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RATTUS ARGENTIVENTER; RATTUS LOSEA; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; TROMBICULIDAE; TUNGA PENETRANS;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MURIDAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RAT; RICE; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MURIDAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; ORYZA SATIVA; RATS; SCRUB TYPHUS; THAILAND; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 0032110623     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/35.4.551     Document Type: Article

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