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Categories: Tick-borne diseases, Typhus, Bacterium-related cutaneous conditions, Zoonoses
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tsutsugamushi disease  scrub typhus  Japanese river fever  Kedani fever  scrub mite-borne typhus
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Transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia WordNet 3.0
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Transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Scrub typhus or bush typhus is a form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi, a Gram-negative α-proteobacterium of family Rickettsiaceae first isolated and identified in 1930 in Japan. Wikipedia
A form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi carried by certain mites. Wiktionary