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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Rickettsiaceae Infections > Scrub Typhus
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Rickettsiaceae Infections > Scrub Typhus

Preferred term

Scrub Typhus  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Diseases, Tsutsugamushi
  • Disease, Tsutsugamushi
  • Fevers, Tsutsugamushi
  • Fever, Tsutsugamushi
  • Infection, Orientia tsutsugamushi
  • Infections, Orientia tsutsugamushi
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection
  • Orientia tsutsugamushi Infections
  • Tsutsugamushi Disease
  • Tsutsugamushi Diseases
  • Tsutsugamushi Fever
  • Tsutsugamushi Fevers
  • Typhus, Scrub

Note

  • caused by ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • TSUTSUGAMUSHI DISEASE was TSUTSUGAMUSHI see SCRUB TYPHUS 1963-91

In other languages

  • pensaspilkkukuume

    Finnish

  • febris exanthematica acarinalis
  • febris tsutsugamushi
  • fläcktyfus orsakad av Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
  • fläcktyfus överförd av kvalster
  • infectio a Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
  • pensaikkopilkkukuume
  • tsutsugamushi
  • tsutsugamushi-kuume
  • tsutsugamusi
  • tsutsugamusi-kuume
  • Fästingöverförd rickettsios

    Swedish

  • Tsutsugamushifeber
  • Tsutsugamushis sjukdom

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012612

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