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Mizoram is a biodiversity hotspot and &gt;85% of the state is under forest cover, which provides an ideal ecological niche for the rodents and mites to transmit scrub typhus and other rickettsial infections. Using the Weil\u2010Felix test, a serosurvey of household rodents from 41 villages spread across all the 11 districts in Mizoram was undertaken to gather important insights on their role in disease transmission. Furthermore, the chigger and flea indexes were calculated from the captured rodents. The 163 rodents captured belonged to five species; the highest numbers were from\n                    <jats:italic>Rattus tanezumi<\/jats:italic>\n                    (87), followed by\n                    <jats:italic>Rattus rattus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (41),\n                    <jats:italic>Mus musculus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (17),\n                    <jats:italic>Suncus murinus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (16), and\n                    <jats:italic>Bandicota bengalensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (2). The rickettsial seropositivity of the captured rodents was 66.26% (108 out of 163 were positive). Among the 163 rodents, sera of 75 (46.01%), 61 (37.42%), and 73 (44.78%) were reactive to OXK, OX19, and OX2 antigens, respectively. The chigger and flea index were 17.92 and 0.16, respectively. Overall, the study has given important insights into the risk of multiple rickettsial infections that household rodents could transmit in Mizoram. 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