Identification of potential hosts and vectors of scrub typhus and tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiae in eastern Taiwan

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-177

  Kuo, C C ^a,b   Huang, C L ^a   Wang, Hsi Chieh ^a  

^a Centers for Disease Control   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hosts; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Spotted fever; Taiwan; Vectors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ETIOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; LARVA; MITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PATHOGEN; SAMPLING; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MURIDAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RICKETTSIA CONORII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RODENT DISEASE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASON; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN; TICK; TROMBICULIDAE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MURIDAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POPULATION DENSITY; RICKETTSIA CONORII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; RODENT DISEASES; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN; TROMBICULIDAE;

TAIWAN;

ACARI; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; LEPTOTROMBIDIUM; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RHIPICEPHALUS HAEMAPHYSALOIDES; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES; RODENTIA; TROMBICULIDAE; TROMBIDIFORMES;

EID: 79955963776     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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