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Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021
Research Letter

Indoor and Outdoor Rodent Hosts of Orientia tsutsugamushi, Shandong Province, China

Fei Li, Zhen-Tang Zhang, Li-Zhu Fang, Hao YuComments to Author , Xiang-Rong QinComments to Author , and Xue-Jie YuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Shandong University, Jinan, China (F. Li); Huangdao District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China (Z.-T. Zhang); Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (L.-Z. Fang, H. Yu, X.-J. Yu); The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan (X.-R. Qin)

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Table

Prevalence of Orientia tsutsugamushi in small mammals, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, December 2012–July 2016

Species Season, no. positive/no. tested (%)
Spring Summer Autumn Winter Total
Rodent
Apodemus agrarius 0/2 (0) 0/28 (0) 3/39 (7.7) 0/1 (0) 3/70 (4.3)
Mus musculus 0/2 (0) 0/14 (0) 2/9 (22.2) 0/2 (0) 2/27 (7.4)
Rattus norvegicus 0/4 (0) 0/8 (0) 0/9 (0) 0/3 (0) 0/24 (0)
Tscherskia triton 0/1 (0) 0/1 (0) 0/15 (0) 0/1 (0) 0/18 (0)
Niviventer confucianus 0 0 1/8 (12.5) 0 1/8 (12.5)
Cricetulus barabensis
 0/1 (0)
 0
 1/6 (16.7)
 0
 1/7 (14.3)
Shrew
Crocidura lasiura
 0
 0
 0/8 (0)
 0
 0/8 (0)
Total 0/10 (0) 0/51 (0) 7/94 (7.4) 0/7 (0) 7/162 (4.3)

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