Gene

Identification (biology)

Electrical engineering

Engineering

Virology

Ecology

Virus

Typhus

Rickettsiosis

Trombiculidae

Scrub typhus

Rickettsia

Acari

Orientia tsutsugamushi

Recombinant DNA

Biochemistry

Medicine

Transmission (telecommunications)

Biology

Vector (molecular biology)

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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.

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