scrub typhus in English
noun
1
a rickettsial disease transmitted to humans by mites and found in parts of eastern Asia.
He treated many infectious diseases, including scrub typhus , the subject of his MD thesis.
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1. A case of scrub typhus due toRickettsia tsutsugamushi is reported.
2. Infestation with mites of the genus Trombicula, whose larvae carry the rickettsial agent of scrub typhus.
3. The different Aetiologies of acute febrile illness are scrub typhus, malaria, enteric fever, dengue, leptospirosis and spotted fever [3]
4. 15 Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness. Severe complications of this disease have been very rare since the introduction of specific antibiotic therapy.