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What (who) is tsutsugamushi disease - definition

FORM OF TYPHUS CAUSED BY THE INTRACELLULAR PARASITE ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI
Tsutsugamushi; Tsutsugamushi fever; Scrub typhus fever; Tzutzugamushi; Tsutsugamushi triangle; Bush typhus; Tsutsugamuchi disease; Spotted typhus
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tsutsugamushi disease      
[?tsu:tsu:g?'m??i]
¦ noun another term for scrub typhus.
Origin
early 20th cent.: tsutsugamushi, from the Japanese name of the mite which transmits the disease.
scrub typhus         
¦ noun a rickettsial disease transmitted to humans by mites and found in parts of east Asia.
Kimura's disease         
HUMAN DISEASE
Kimura´s disease; Kimura disease
Kimura's disease is a benign rare chronic inflammatory disorder. Its primary symptoms are subdermal lesions in the head or neck or painless unilateral inflammation of cervical lymph nodes.

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Scrub typhus

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.

Although the disease is similar in presentation to other forms of typhus, its pathogen is no longer included in genus Rickettsia with the typhus bacteria proper, but in Orientia. The disease is thus frequently classified separately from the other typhi.