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An acute infectious disease caused by ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI. It is limited to eastern and southeastern Asia, India, northern Australia, and the adjacent islands. Characteristics include the formation of a primary cutaneous lesion at the site of the bite of an infected mite, fever lasting about two weeks, and a maculopapular rash.
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- Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection
- Tsutsugamushi Disease
- Tsutsugamushi Fever
- Typhus, Scrub
- Disease, Tsutsugamushi
- Diseases, Tsutsugamushi
- Fever, Tsutsugamushi
- Fevers, Tsutsugamushi
- Infection, Orientia tsutsugamushi
- Infections, Orientia tsutsugamushi
- Orientia tsutsugamushi Infections
- Tsutsugamushi Diseases
- Tsutsugamushi Fevers
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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caused by ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI
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History Note
TSUTSUGAMUSHI DISEASE was TSUTSUGAMUSHI see SCRUB TYPHUS 1963-91
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Scrub Typhus. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012612. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012612
- Scrub Typhus. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_typhus
- Scrub Typhus. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1194496