| identification and characterization of orientia chuto in trombiculid chigger mites collected from wild rodents in kenya. | we present data that concurs with the reported geographical expansion of scrub typhus outside the "tsutsugamushi triangle" and addition of orientia chuto as a second species in the orientia genus. wild rodents were caught in marigat, baringo county, kenya, and ectoparasites, including chiggers, were recovered. rodent and chigger species were identified by taxonomic features. dna was extracted from the chiggers and used to amplify and/or sequence the 47-kda high temperature transmembrane protein ... | 2018 | 30282787 |