Volume 19, Number 5—May 2013
Dispatch
Scrub Typhus Outbreak, Northern Thailand, 2006–2007
Table 2
Species of chiggers collected from small mammals, Ban Pongyeang, northern Thailand, 2006–2007.
Host species | No. (%) chiggers |
Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leptotrombidium deliense | Gahrliepia (Walchia) rustica | Gahrliepia (Schoengastiella) ligula | Ascoschoengastia spp. | ||
Bandicota indica | 471 (49.5) | 324 (34.1) | 131 (13.8) | 25 (2.6) | 951 |
Bandicota savilei | 354 (50.7) | 223 (31.9) | 105 (15.0) | 17 (2.4) | 699 |
Rattus rattus | 125 (39.1) | 119 (37.2) | 56 (17.4) | 20 (6.3) | 320 |
Rattus exulans | 28 (70.0) | 12 (30.0) | 0 | 0 | 40 |
Rattus berdmorei | 52 (31.0) | 80 (47.6) | 31 (18.5) | 5 (2.9) | 168 |
Tupaia glis | 15 (36.6) | 17 (41.5) | 9 (21.9) | 0 | 41 |
Menetes berdmorei | 32 (57.1) | 24 (42.9) | 0 | 0 | 56 |
Herpestes javanicus |
7 (100.0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
Total | 1,084 (47.6) | 799 (35.1) | 332 (14.6) | 62 (2.7) | 2,277 |