1. Indoor and Outdoor Rodent Hosts of Orientia tsutsugamushi, Shandong Province, China
- Author
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Li-Zhu Fang, Hao Yu, Xiang-Rong Qin, Xue Jie Yu, Fei Li, and Zhentang Zhang
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Microbiology (medical) ,Apodemus agrarius ,China ,Orientia tsutsugamushi ,mites ,Rodent ,Epidemiology ,Zoology ,Scrub typhus ,Trombiculidae ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 ,Niviventer confucianus ,Mice ,Shandong ,Cricetulus barabensis ,biology.animal ,vector-borne diseases ,medicine ,Research Letter ,Animals ,bacteria ,Orientia ,biology ,Zoonotic Infection ,scrub typhus ,Indoor and Outdoor Rodent Hosts of Orientia tsutsugamushi, Shandong Province, China ,bacterial zoonoses ,virus diseases ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,zoonotic infections ,Rats ,zoonoses ,Infectious Diseases ,rodents ,Medicine ,Murinae ,animal host ,chiggers - Abstract
During December 2012-July 2016, we tested small indoor and outdoor mammals in Qingdao, China, for Orientia tsutsugamushi infection. We found that outdoor Apodemus agrarius mice, Cricetulus barabensis hamsters, and Niviventer confucianus rats, as well as indoor Mus musculus mice, tested positive for O. tsutsugamushi by PCR.
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- 2021