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Definition of Scrub typhus
1. Noun. Transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia.
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
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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