Abstract
Mite-borne diseases, such as scrub typhus and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, present an increasing global public health concern. Most of the mite-borne diseases are caused by the blood-sucking mites. To present a comprehensive understanding of the distributions and diversity of blood-sucking mites in China, we derived information from peer-reviewed journal articles, thesis publications and books related to mites in both Chinese and English between 1978 and 2020. Geographic information of blood-sucking mites’ occurrence and mite species were extracted and georeferenced at the county level. Standard operating procedures were applied to remove duplicates and ensure accuracy of the data. This dataset contains 6,443 records of mite species occurrences at the county level in China. This geographical dataset provides an overview of the species diversity and wide distributions of blood-sucking mites, and can potentially be used in distribution prediction of mite species and risk assessment of mite-borne diseases in China.
Highlights
Background & SummaryVector-borne infections (VBI) are defined as infectious diseases transmitted by the bite or mechanical transfer of arthropod vectors
To better identify the geographic distributions of the major mite species in China, we reviewed the prevalence, geographical distributions, and zoonotic potential of blood-sucking mites in China
After the firstround literature search, we made double check to find the publications that were overlapped in three Chinese databases (CNKI, Wan Fang database, and VIP database)
Summary
Vector-borne infections (VBI) are defined as infectious diseases transmitted by the bite or mechanical transfer of arthropod vectors. According to the recent studies, many infectious diseases transmitted by the bite or mechanical transfer of mite vectors[2,3,4], including scrub typhus[5], hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS)[6] and plague[7], are of global importance. Most of the recent studies have been carried out to report the identification of novel mite species[21], the novel endemic regions[22], novel mite-borne diseases[6], or even the genomics and developmental transcriptomics analyses of certain mite species[23] For those reports on the geographic distributions of mite species, the publication language was usually in Chinese. The most frequently reported mite species are Haemolaelaps glasgowi and Laelaps echidninus
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