tsutsugamushin.
/ˌtsuːtsuːɡəˈmuːʃi//ˌtsuːtsᵿɡəˈmuːʃi/ Pathology.
= scrub typhus n. at scrub n.1 Compounds 4. Usually attributive in tsutsugamushi disease.
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Rocky Mountain fever1878
trench fever1898
Rocky Mountain spotted fever1903
tsutsugamushi1906
mite typhus1921
tick typhus1921
mite-borne typhus1923
scrub typhus1929
Q fever1937
1906 Index Medicus IV. Index 216/1 Tsutsugamushi disease.
1908 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. B. 3 1 (heading) A comparative study of tsutsugamushi disease and spotted or tick fever of Montana.
1929 W. Fletcher et al. in Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 23 61 The K. form has a patchy distribution, and its virus, like the virus of the tsutsugamushi disease, has its home in circumscribed areas of untilled open country, particularly in land which after being cleared of jungle has been allowed to grow up in weeds and scrub... Because cases of the K. form have their origin in such places, we propose that this kind of tropical typhus should be called scrub-typhus.
1937 Med. Jrnl. Australia 21 Aug. 300/1 The absence of a local intradermal lesion speaks against the virus being of the spotted fever or tsutsugamushi types of Rickettsia.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 71 507 The Japanese synonym, tsutsugamushi disease, clearly had precedence, but the name, scrub typhus, became fully established through widespread use in World War II.
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