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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024scrub′ ty′phus, [Pathol.]- Pathologyan infectious disease occurring chiefly in Japan and the East Indies, caused by the organism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by mites through biting. Also called Japanese river fever, tsutsugamushi disease.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: scrub typhus n - an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
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