| mite vectors (acari: trombiculidae) of scrub typhus in a new endemic area in northern kyoto, japan. | between 1983 and 1999, 27 human cases of scrub typhus (two fatal) occurred in the nodagawa river basin of northern kyoto, japan, an area where no cases had been previously reported. antibody screening of infected patients' sera showed that nine of 15 patients had high titers against the gilliam type of orientia tsutsugamushi (hayashi). to determine the vector mite transmitting the disease, we studied rodent and chigger populations in and near a rice field alongside the nodagawa river between 199 ... | 2004 | 14989353 |