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The occurrence of\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    in chigger mites, which are vectors of scrub typhus in the western Pacific region, has been infrequently investigated. We identified\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. in chiggers collected from small mammals in six counties of Taiwan. Moreover, by capitalising on parallel\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    detections on small mammals and their infested ticks and fleas, we were able to identify\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. that suggested more intimate associations with chigger mites.\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    detection rates in 318 pools of chiggers were 21.7% and 22.3% when based on the\n                    <jats:italic>ompB<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene, respectively. Overall, we identified six (based on the\n                    <jats:italic>ompB<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene) and eight (\n                    <jats:italic>gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene)\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    species. Approximately half of the sequenced species were most similar to\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. clone MB74\u20101 (\n                    <jats:italic>ompB<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene) and\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. TwKM02 (\n                    <jats:italic>gltA<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene). Furthermore, both species were either infrequently or never identified in small mammals, ticks and fleas, which suggests that chigger mites might be the primary host of both rickettsiae. Whether both species are pathogenic to humans remains to be studied. They may also be microbial endosymbionts of chigger mites, with their potential effects on the pathogenicity of the aetiologic agent of scrub typhus deserving further investigations.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/mve.12560","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,30]],"date-time":"2021-11-30T16:53:28Z","timestamp":1638291208000},"page":"223-229","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Molecular identification of\n                    <i>Rickettsia<\/i>\n                    spp. in chigger mites in Taiwan"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"36","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1892-6712","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chi\u2010Chien","family":"Kuo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Science National Taiwan Normal University  Taipei Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pei\u2010Lung","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Diagnostics and Vaccine Development, Centers for Disease Control Ministry of Health and Welfare  Taipei Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hsi\u2010Chieh","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Diagnostics and Vaccine Development, Centers for Disease Control Ministry of Health and Welfare  Taipei Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03912.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/jme\/tjw234"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s13071-015-1221-7"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2014.1584"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/jme\/tjv083"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_7_1","volume-title":"Trombiculid mites of China: studies on vector and pathogen of tsutsugamushi disease","author":"Li J.","year":"1997"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pt.2021.04.004"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1348-0421.12745"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.00032-13"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1098\/rspb.2006.3541"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1099\/00207713-50-5-1775"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.16-0915"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.2007.77.883"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2915.1992.tb00639.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_16_1","first-page":"595","article-title":"Fleas of shrews and rodents in rural lowland Taiwan","volume":"57","author":"Wang H.C.","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Medical Entomology"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1741-7007-7-6"}],"container-title":["Medical and Veterinary Entomology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/mve.12560","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1111\/mve.12560","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/mve.12560","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]],"date-time":"2025-11-04T12:19:09Z","timestamp":1762258749000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/mve.12560"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,30]]},"references-count":16,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/mve.12560"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/mve.12560","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0269-283X","1365-2915"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0269-283X","type":"print"},{"value":"1365-2915","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,30]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2021-08-16","order":0,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2021-11-08","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2021-11-30","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}