Volume 32, Number 2—February 2026
Research
Leptotrombidium imphalum Chiggers as Vector for Scrub Typhus in Human Settlements, India, 2022–2023
Carol S. Devamani, Neal Alexander, Rawadee Kumlert, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Serge Morand, Mary Cameron, Alexandr A. Stekolnikov, Winsley Rose, Daniel Chandramohan, Punam Mangtani, Kundavaram P.P. Abhilash, and Wolf-Peter Schmidt
Table 1
Small mammal distribution by habitat in study of Leptotrombidium imphalum chiggers as vector for scrub typhus in human settlements, India, 2022–2023
| Animal | No. (%) animals |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village center | Village edge | Field | Total | |
| Greater bandicoot rat, Bandicota indica | 156 (49.4) | 105 (35.4) | 23 (8.5) | 284 (32.2) |
| Black rat, Rattus rattus | 79 (25.0) | 85 (28.6) | 113 (41.9) | 277 (31.4) |
| Asian house shrew, Suncus murinus | 80 (25.3) | 102 (34.3) | 91 (33.7) | 273 (30.9) |
| Mouse, Mus spp. | 1 (0.3) | 0 | 21 (7.8) | 22 (2.5) |
| Three-striped Indian palm squirrel, Funambulus palmarum | 0 | 2 (0.7) | 12 (4.4) | 14 (1.6) |
| Indian gerbil, Tatera indica | 0 | 3 (1.0) | 9 (3.3) | 12 (1.4) |
| Asian gray mongoose, Urva edwardsii |
0 |
0 |
1 (0.4) |
1 (0.1) |
| Total | 316 (100.0) | 297 (100.0) | 270 (100.0) | 883 (100.0) |
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