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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.
- Typhus
The name comes from the Greek tûphos (τῦφος), meaning hazy...
- Orientia tsutsugamushi
Orientia tsutsugamushi (from Japanese tsutsuga meaning...
- Typhus
The name comes from the Greek tûphos (τῦφος), meaning hazy or smoky and commonly used as a word for delusion, describing the state of mind of those infected. While "typhoid" means "typhus-like", typhus and typhoid fever are distinct diseases caused by different types of bacteria.
May 15, 2024 · Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by bacteria called Orientia tsutsugamushi. Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites). The most common symptoms of scrub typhus include fever, headache, body aches, and rash.
Apr 1, 2020 · Historical reference to the rickettsial disease scrub typhus was first described in China (313 AD) by Hong Ge in a clinical manual (Zhouhofang) and in Japan (1810 AD) when Hakuju Hashimoto described tsutsuga, a noxious harmful disease in the Niigata prefecture.
- Allen L Richards, Ju Jiang
- 10.3390/tropicalmed5020049
- 2020
- Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020 Jun; 5(2): 49.
The infection is passed to humans when a mite larva bites a person. Scrub typhus occurs in Southeast Asia and its associated archipelagoes, in northern Australia, and in Japan, where the disease was first described (1899) and systematically investigated (1906–32).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Orientia tsutsugamushi (from Japanese tsutsuga meaning "illness", and mushi meaning "insect") is a mite-borne bacterium belonging to the family Rickettsiaceae and is responsible for a disease called scrub typhus in humans.
Jan 17, 2018 · Within 24 h the Weil-Felix OX-K positive, isolate-positive soldier became afebrile. This early success appeared promising, and testing was continued in a cohort of scrub typhus patients. Disease resolution in several more proven cases quickly followed. For the first time in human history, an antibiotic had cured scrub typhus.
