The potential effect of exotic Pacific rats Rattus exulans on vectors of scrub typhus

Agriculture & Biology

• Rattus exulans 100%
• scrub typhus 98%
• chiggers 93%
• rats 32%
• Leptotrombidium 19%
• Orientia tsutsugamushi 19%
• vector-borne diseases 16%
• small mammals 13%
• Taiwan 12%
• villages 11%
• disease vectors 7%
• human population 6%
• spatial variation 6%
• angle of incidence 6%
• human health 5%
• mites 5%
• population density 5%
• traps 5%
• indigenous species 5%
• parasites 4%
• prediction 4%
• synthesis 3%
• infection 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• scrub 74%
• exotic species 36%
• small mammal 24%
• village 17%
• disease vector 15%
• effect 14%
• mite 13%
• range expansion 12%
• native species 10%
• parasite 10%
• human population 10%
• infection 9%
• population density 9%
• health risk 9%
• spatial variation 8%
• human health 8%
• prediction 5%
• trend 5%