Identification of trombiculid mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) on rodents from Chiloé Island and molecular evidence of infection with Orientia species

• Gerardo Acosta-Jamett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, Programa de Investigación Aplicada en Fauna Silvestre, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9645-3551

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• Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Infectología y Virología Molecular, Red Salud UC–Christus, Santiago, Chile

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2836-9817

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• Esperanza Beltrami,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, Escuela de Graduados, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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• María Carolina Silva-de La Fuente,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Ciencias Animal, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Veterinarias, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile

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• Ju Jiang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

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• Allen L. Richards,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Thomas Weitzel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Weitzel, Katia Abarca

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.weitzel@gmail.com (TW); katia@med.puc.cl (KA)

  Affiliations Laboratorio Clínico, Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile, Hantavirus and Zoonoses Program, Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina (ICIM), Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9804-2123

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• Katia Abarca

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Weitzel, Katia Abarca

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.weitzel@gmail.com (TW); katia@med.puc.cl (KA)

  Affiliations Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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