Abstract
Drs. K. V. Krishnan and R. O. A. Smith, after developing a technique for breeding Trombicula deliensis in the laboratory over several generations, have used these mites in transmission experiments with the white mouse as test animal, and obtained proof that T. deliensis larvæ are the vectors of scrub typhus in Bengal. This work was carried out at the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, under a grant from the Indian Research Fund Association.
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Vector of Scrub Typhus in Bengal. Nature 163, 107 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163107c0
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