| 单词 | scrub typhus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrub typhus scrub typhus n. an acute rickettsial fever transmitted to man by mites normally parasitic upon small rodents; cf. mite-borne typhus at mite n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other rickettsial fevers Rocky Mountain fever1878 trench fever1898 Rocky Mountain spotted fever1903 tsutsugamushi1906 mite typhus1921 tick typhus1921 mite-borne typhus1923 scrub typhus1929 Q fever1937 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. 1929 W. Fletcher et al. in Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 23 61 The epidemiology of this rural, or scrub-typhus, is very similar to that of the sporadic typhus-like disease of India which Megaw attributes to the bites of ticks. 1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. ix. 241 During World War II tsutsugamushi disease, scrub typhus, was prevalent among our troops in the Far East, and many fatalities occurred. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 71 507 Scrub typhus is a febrile illness, endemic in much of the roughly triangular area bounded by Japan, Pakistan and Australia. < as lemmas |
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