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KMID : 0425120140520020225
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2014 Volume.52 No. 2 p.225 ~ p.229
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Larval Chigger Mites Collected from Small Mammals in 3 Provinces, Korea
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Lee In-Yong
Song Hyeon-Je
Choi Yeon-Joo
Shin Sun-Hye
Choi Min-Kyung
Kwon So-Hyun
Shin E-Hyun
Park Chan
Kim Heung-Chul
Klein Terry A.
Park Kyung-Hee
Jang Won-Jong
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Abstract
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A total of 9,281 larval chigger mites were collected from small mammals captured at Hwaseong-gun, Gyeonggi-do (Province) (2,754 mites from 30 small mammals), Asan city, Chungcheongnam-do (3,358 mites from 48 mammals), and Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do (3,169 for 62 mammals) from April-November 2009 in the Republic of Korea (= Korea) and were identified to species. Leptotrombidium pallidum was the predominant species in Hwaseong (95.8%) and Asan (61.2%), while Leptotrombidium scutellare was the predominant species collected from Jangseong (80.1%). Overall, larval chigger mite indices decreased from April (27.3) to June (4.9), then increased in September (95.2) and to a high level in November (169.3). These data suggest that L. pallidum and L. scutellare are the primary vectors of scrub typhus throughout their range in Korea. While other species of larval chigger mites were also collected with some implications in the transmission of Orientia tsutsugamushi, they only accounted for 11.2% of all larval chigger mites collected from small mammals.
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KEYWORD
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Apodemus agrarius, Leptotrombidium pallidum, Leptotrombidium scutellare, chigger mite, chigger index
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