The potential effect of exotic Pacific rats Rattus exulans on vectors of scrub typhus

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 192-198

  Kuo, Chi Chien ^a,b   Wang, Hsi Chieh ^b   Huang, Ching Lun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chigger; Exotic species; Host parasite interactions; Human health; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; DOMINANCE; HEALTH RISK; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITE; NATIVE SPECIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE EXPANSION; RODENT; SCRUB; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TYPHOID; VILLAGE;

TAIWAN;

ACARI; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM; MAMMALIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 78650927837     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01909.x     Document Type: Article

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