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tsutsugamushi disease: transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
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A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an eschar or tache noire) at the site of the chigger (mite larva) bite. This disease occurs in the area bounded by Japan, India, and Australia. Known also as tsutsugamushi disease, mite-borne typhus, and tropical typhus. [CancerWEB]
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