Background: Small mammals serve as the main reservoir for and as a proxy indicator of the potential risk of transmission from nature to humans. They offer a valuable early warning for human infection. Nevertheless, geographical variations in the impact of the host on the occurrence of infection are underestimated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmall mammals can transmit and serve as a reservoir for () in nature by carrying infected mites. In Yunnan, one of China's main foci of scrub typhus, etiological evidence and genetic diversity for is limited. A total of 2538 small mammals were captured seasonally from 2015 to 2016 in the three counties of Yunnan, and the spleen or liver tissue was examined for based on 56 kDa nPCR.
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