Bacterial microbiome of the chigger mite Leptotrombidium imphalum varies by life stage and infection with the scrub typhus pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi

• Loganathan Ponnusamy ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: loganathan_ponnusamy@ncsu.edu (LP); charles_apperson@ncsu.edu (CSA)

  Affiliations Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-4472

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• Alexandra C. Willcox,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• R. Michael Roe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Silas A. Davidson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, US Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Piyada Linsuwanon,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, US Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Anthony L. Schuster,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, US Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Allen L. Richards,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Steven R. Meshnick,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles S. Apperson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: loganathan_ponnusamy@ncsu.edu (LP); charles_apperson@ncsu.edu (CSA)

  Affiliations Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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