tsutsugamushi disease

tsu·tsu·ga·mu·shi disease  (tsts-g-msh)

n.

See scrub typhus.

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[Japanese tsutsugamushi, typhus mite : tsutsuga, illness + mushi, tick.]

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tsutsugamushi disease [ˌtsʊtsʊgəˈmʊʃɪ]

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) one of the five major groups of acute infectious rickettsial diseases affecting man, common in Asia and including scrub typhus. It is caused by the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by the bite of mites

2. (Medicine / Pathology) another name for scrub typhus

[from Japanese, from tsutsuga disease + mushi insect]

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Noun

1.

tsutsugamushi disease - transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia scrub typhus rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis - infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria