Article ISI SCOPUS
Clinical Infectious Diseases  (2022)

Novel Vector of Scrub Typhus in Sub-Antarctic Chile: Evidence From Human Exposure

Weitzel T.; Silva-de la Fuente M.C.; Martínez-Valdebenito C.; Stekolnikov A.A.; Pérez C.; Pérez R.; Vial C.; Abarca K.; Acosta-Jamett G.

Keywords: Herpetacarus antarctica; Orientia species; scrub typhus; trombiculiasis; trombiculid mite

Abstract

The exposure of a research team to chigger mites in southern Chile allowed the first identification of a trombiculid species as vector and reservoir of scrub typhus outside the tsutsugamushi triangle, providing unique insights into the ecology and transmission of this recently discovered rickettsial infection in South America.

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Título según WOS: Novel Vector of Scrub Typhus in Sub-Antarctic Chile: Evidence From Human Exposure
Título según SCOPUS: Novel Vector of Scrub Typhus in Sub-Antarctic Chile: Evidence From Human Exposure
Título de la Revista: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volumen: 74
Número: 10
Editorial: Oxford University Press
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Página final: 1865
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.1093/cid/ciab748
Notas: ISI, SCOPUS