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Bush typhus, mite typhus, jungle typhus [1] Orientia tsutsugamushi. Specialty. Infectious disease. 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.
- Bush typhus, mite typhus, jungle typhus
Nov 13, 2020 · Most cases of scrub typhus occur in rural areas of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan, India, and northern Australia. Anyone living in or traveling to areas where scrub typhus is found could get infected. Signs and Symptoms. Symptoms of scrub typhus usually begin within 10 days of being bitten. Signs and symptoms may include:
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Apr 1, 2020 · Scrub typhus, a febrile disease with mild to life-threatening manifestations, is characterized by rapid onset of fever, headache, chills, arthralgias and myalgias and often the presentation of eschar prior to and a macularpapular rash following initiation of disease [1,2,3,4,5,6]. The illness lasts approximately 3 weeks and ends without sequalae.
- Allen L Richards, Ju Jiang
- 10.3390/tropicalmed5020049
- 2020
- Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020 Jun; 5(2): 49.
Sep 26, 2022 · Scrub typhus is an infectious disease caused by the rickettsial bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. The causative organism displays high levels of antigenic variation.[1] It is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific region including but not limited to the region known as the “tsutsugamushi triangle”. One billion people globally covering more than 8 million kilometers from ...
Apr 1, 2020 · Other clinicians and scientists in Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and India reported on diseases most likely to have been scrub typhus in the early 1900s. All of these initial reports about scrub typhus were from an area later designated as the Tsutsugamushi Triangle-an area encompassing Pakistan to the northwest ...
- Allen L Richards, Ju Jiang
- 2020
Aug 18, 2020 · Abstract. Scrub typhus is a mite-borne, acute febrile illness caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. It is a re-emerging infectious disease of the tsutsugamushi triangle. Scrub typhus is transmitted through bites of contaminated chiggers (larval stage). Diagnosis of scrub typhus is challenging as its symptoms mimic with other acute ...
Sep 25, 2023 · Author summary Scrub typhus is a febrile illness common in the Asia Pacific area. It is caused by bacteria in the genus Orientia and spread via the bite of Trombiculid mites. While we know that scrub typhus is present in Indonesia, there is very limited information on how widespread the problem is. To address this problem, this study aimed to create a map of geographic areas that are at risk ...
