TY - JOUR AU - Li, Fei AU - Zhang, Zhen-Tang AU - Fang, Li-Zhu AU - Yu, Hao AU - Qin, Xiang-Rong AU - Yu, Xue-Jie T1 - Indoor and Outdoor Rodent Hosts of Orientia tsutsugamushi, Shandong Province, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 10 SP - 2731 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During December 2012–July 2016, we tested small indoor and outdoor mammals in Qingdao, China, for Orientia tsutsugamushi infection. We found that outdoor Apodemus agrarius mice, Cricetulus barabensis hamsters, and Niviventer confucianus rats, as well as indoor Mus musculus mice, tested positive for O. tsutsugamushi by PCR. KW - Orientia tsutsugamushi KW - scrub typhus KW - rodents KW - animal host KW - Shandong KW - China KW - zoonoses KW - zoonotic infections KW - vector-borne diseases KW - mites KW - chiggers KW - bacteria KW - bacterial zoonoses DO - 10.3201/eid2710.210393 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-0393_article ER - End of Reference