| investigation of the role of blankaartia acuscutellaris (acari: trombiculidae) as a vector of scrub typhus in central thailand. | monthly collections of rodents were conducted in phitsanulok province, central thailand in 1993 to investigate the role of the mite blankaartia acuscurellaris as a vector of scrub typhus. overall, a total of 41 rodents were collected and examined for the presence of the red colored larvae of b. acuscutellaris and yellow larvae of leptotrombidium deliense and ascoshoengastia sp. a total of 787 b. acuscutellaris and 1390 yellow larvae were placed into pools, triturated and isolation of orientia ts ... | 2001 | 12041564 |