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tsu·tsu·ga·mu·shi disease
\ˌ(t)sütsəgəˈmüshē-\ noun
Etymology: Japanese tsutsugamushi scrub typhus mite, from tsutsuga sickness + mushi insect
: an acute febrile disease resembling louse-borne typhus originally known from Japan but widely distributed in the western Pacific area and caused by a rickettsia (Rickettsia tsutsugamushi or R. orientalis) transmitted by larval mites (especially Trombicula akamushi) that also occur on several voles which act as reservoir hosts of the infection — called also scrub typhus |