Variable clinical responses of a scrub typhus outbred mouse model to feeding by Orientia tsutsugamushi infected mites

• Main Authors: Woradee Lurchachaiwong, Taweesak Monkanna, Surachai Leepitakrat, Alongkot Ponlawat, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Anthony L. Schuster, Patrick W. McCardle, Allen L. Richards
• Other Authors: Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Environmental Science
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/13408
• Institution: Mahidol University

Rodents are the natural hosts for Leptotrombidium mites that transmit Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus, a potentially fatal febrile human disease. Utilizing mite lines that included O. tsutsugamushi infected and non-infected Leptotrombidium species we investigated the vari...