Detection of Orientia spp. Bacteria in Field-Collected Free-Living Eutrombicula Chigger Mites, United States.

ABSTRACT: Scrub typhus, a rickettsial disease caused by Orientia spp., is transmitted by infected larval trombiculid mites (chiggers). We report the molecular detection of Orientia species in free-living Eutrombicula chiggers collected in an area in North Carolina, USA, to which spotted fever group rickettsiae infections are endemic.

SUBMITTER: Chen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10370866 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature