Definition of Scrub typhus

1. Noun. Transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia.

Exact synonyms: Tsutsugamushi Disease
Generic synonyms: Rickettsial Disease, Rickettsiosis

Medical Definition of Scrub typhus

1. 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 tsutsugamushi disease, mite-borne typhus, and tropical typhus. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrub Typhus

scrub-bird
scrub beefwood
scrub bird
scrub birds
scrub brush
scrub bull
scrub fowl
scrub nurse
scrub oak
scrub oaks
scrub palmetto
scrub pine
scrub plane
scrub robin
scrub robins
scrub typhus (current term)
scrub up
scrub wallabies
scrub wallaby
scrubbable
scrubbed
scrubbers
scrubbier
scrubbiest
scrubbily
scrubbiness
scrubbing
scrubbing brush
scrubbings

Literary usage of Scrub typhus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Health Information for International Travel edited by Rosamond R. Dewart (1999)
"scrub typhus, transmitted by rodent mites, occurs in Asia and the South Pacific. ... scrub typhus occurs throughout the year in tropical areas, ..."

2. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"In about ten days scrub typhus broke out and we had a lot of trouble. Hundreds of our troops ran high fevers for several days and we lost about two per cent ..."

3. Rice in Laos by J M Schiller, International Rice Research Institute (2006)
"In northern Thailand in 2000, 3914 cases of scrub typhus were reported, with most cases being male farmers (in northeast Thailand in 2000, the morbidity ..."

4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"These we may call the typhus group, the Rocky Mountain spotted fever group, tsutsugamushi disease (scrub typhus) and Q fever. At present these four groups ..."

5. Health Information for International Travel by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"scrub typhus is a common cause of fever among susceptible persons who engage in occupational or recreational behavior that bring them in contact with larval ..."

6. Health Information for International Travel (1994) by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"scrub typhus is a common cause of fever among susceptible persons who engage in occupational or recreational behavior that bring them in contact with larval ..."

7. Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories edited by Jonathan Y. Richmond, Robert W. McKinney (1994)
"... in debilitating or severe acute disease ranging from increased periods of convalescence in typhus and scrub typhus to death in P. rickettsii infections. ..."

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