Infestation and distribution of chiggers on the Anderson's white‐bellied rats in southwest China [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2023 As a group of ectoparasites, chiggers (larvae of chigger mites) are the exclusive vector of scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease). Rodents are the most important hosts of chiggers. The Anderson's niviventer rat, Niviventer andersoni, is an endemic species
Yu Guo +6 more
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Complete Type Catalog of Trombiculidae sensu lato (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the U.S. National Entomology Collection, Smithsonian Institution [PDF]
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 2021 Mites in the family Trombiculidae sensu lato are parasites of terrestrial vertebrates, even humans, in their larval stage. There are more than 3,700 species of chiggers, and about one-third of these species are represented by type specimens in the ...
Ricardo Bassini‐Silva +4 more
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Taxonomy and distribution of African chiggers (Acariformes, Trombiculidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2018 Chigger mites of the African continent are reviewed using data acquired from the literature and examination of the collections deposited at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) and the Natural History Museum (London, UK).
Alexandr A. Stekolnikov
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Parasitism, seasonality, and diversity of trombiculid mites (Trombidiformes: Parasitengona, Trombiculidae) infesting bats (Chiroptera) in Poland. [PDF]
Exp Appl Acarol, 2022 The study aims to ascertain the diversity of trombiculid species associated with Chiroptera in Poland, and for the first time in the case of research on Central European Trombiculidae, we use both DNA and morphology in an integrative taxonomic approach ...
Zajkowska P, Mąkol J.
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Pterygosomatidae and Trombiculidae mites infesting Tropidurus hispidus (Spix, 1825) (Tropiduridae) lizards in northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2011 Parasitism of the lizard Tropidurus hispidus by Geckobiella sp. and by larvae of Eutrombicula alfreddugesi was examined in a mountainous area in Chapada do Araripe (07° 16' S and 39° 26' W), southern Ceará State, Brazil.
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Clinicolaboratory Profile and Outcome of Serologically Confirmed Scrub Typhus among Children from Sub Himalayan Tribal District of India: A Hospital-based Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Introduction: Scrub typhus is transmitted by the bite of the larva (chigger) of a microscopic trombiculidae mite (Leptotrombidium) found in moist areas and vegetation, which serves as both vector and reservoir.
Raj Kumar Soorya +2 more
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Host-associated differences in morphometric traits of parasitic larvae (Actinotrichida: Trombiculidae) [PDF]
, 2015 Hanna Moniuszko +2 more
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Distribution and Host Selection of the Chigger Mite Leptotrombidium rupestre, a Potential Vector of Scrub Typhus, in Southwest China. [PDF]
Vet Med SciBased on field surveys in southwest China between 2001 and 2022, this paper retrospectively reports the distribution and host selection of L. rupestre in the region for the first time. A total of 4675 L. rupestre were identified from 28 species of small mammal hosts in 23 of 114 survey sites and it was mainly distributed in higher latitudes (31–33° N ...
Yu R +9 more
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Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019 The article provides information on the occurrence of chigger mites (Acariformes, Trombiculidae), obtained as a result of long-term studies of the ectoparasite fauna of small mammals from 1992 to 2018 in Karelia, Murmansk Region (2015), Arkhangelsk ...
Lyubov Bespyatova, Sergey Bugmyrin
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A diagnostic survey of chigger mites (acari: trombiculidae) of wild rodents and soricomorphs in turkey [PDF]
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020 This diagnostic survey of chigger mites of the family Trombiculidae was conducted across 26 provinces of Turkey during 2015 - 2016. A total of eight species of chigger mites from 5 genera were collected from 7 different host species of wild rodents and ...
Mustafa AÇICI +4 more
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