DISEASE: Scrub typhus

Entry

H00324                      Disease

Name

Scrub typhus

Description

Scrub typhus, also known as tsutsugamushi disease, is a zoonosis caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular bacterium that is transmitted by the Leptotrombidium species mite. The disease is confined to East Asia and characterized by fever, rash, eschar, pneumonitis, meningitis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by alpha proteobacteria
   H00324  Scrub typhus
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Other bacterial diseases
   Rickettsioses
    1C30  Typhus fever
     H00324  Scrub typhus

Pathogen

Orientia tsutsugamushi [GN:ots ott] (mite-borne typhus)

Comment

Vector: Leptotrombidium deliense, L. fletcheri and L. arenicola

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1C30.3

ICD-10:

A75.3

MeSH:

D012612

Reference

PMID:11226850

Authors

Seong SY, Choi MS, Kim IS

Title

Orientia tsutsugamushi infection: overview and immune responses.

Journal

Microbes Infect 3:11-21 (2001)
DOI:10.1016/S1286-4579(00)01352-6

Reference

PMID:21458586

Authors

Ge Y, Rikihisa Y

Title

Subversion of host cell signaling by Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Journal

Microbes Infect 13:638-48 (2011)
DOI:10.1016/j.micinf.2011.03.003

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