Tsutsugamushi disease
A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an eschar or tache noire) at the site of the chigger (mite larva) bite. This disease occurs in the area bounded by Japan, India, and Australia. Known also as mite-borne typhus, and tropical typhus.
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tsu·tsu·ga·mu·shi disease .(t)süt-sə-gə-'mü-shē-, .tüt-, -'gäm-u̇-shē- n an acute febrile bacterial disease that is caused by a rickettsial bacterium (
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi) transmitted by mite larvae, resembles louse-borne typhus, and is widespread in the western Pacific area
called also scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi
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scrub typhus.
Medical dictionary.
2011.