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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.
Apr 1, 2020 · Throughout the subsequent history of the IMR scrub typhus, research continued with major advances in O. tsutsugamushi isolations, diagnostics, treatment/prophylaxis, vaccine and immunology research, and vector and ecology research . Scrub typhus research is not limited to the IMR as indicated by recent publications [73,74,75,76,77,78].
- Allen L Richards, Ju Jiang
- 10.3390/tropicalmed5020049
- 2020
- Trop Med Infect Dis. 2020 Jun; 5(2): 49.
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. [1] It is a natural and an obligate intracellular parasite of mites belonging to the family Trombiculidae.
- O. tsutsugamushi
- Rickettsiaceae
Nov 13, 2020 · Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, is a disease caused by a 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 sometimes rash. Most cases of scrub typhus occur in rural areas of ...
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.
scrub typhus, acute infectious disease in humans that is caused by the parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted to humans by the bite of certain kinds of trombiculid mites, or chiggers. The causative agent of scrub typhus, the bacterium O. tsutsugamushi, is primarily a parasite of certain mites, of which two closely related species ...
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