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Table 3 PCR testing for Orientia tsutsugamushi on individual free-living chiggers

From: Orientia tsutsugamushi dynamics in vectors and hosts: ecology and risk factors for foci of scrub typhus transmission in northern Thailand

Chigger species

PCR negative

PCR positive (%)

Eutrombicula wichmanni

1

0

Gahrliepia sp.

7

0

Gahrliepia xiaowoi

6

1 (14.2)

Leptotrombidium deliense

22

2 (8.3)

Leptotrombidium imphalum

7

1 (12.5)

Leptotrombidium turdicola

4

0

Odontacarus audyi

2

0

Trombiculindus sp.

16

0

Walchia turmalis

1

0

Total

66

4 (5.7)

  1. Positive PCR results are indicated in bold
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Parasites & Vectors

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