"Scrub Typhus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acute infectious disease caused by ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI. It is limited to eastern and southeastern Asia, India, northern Australia, and the adjacent islands. Characteristics include the formation of a primary cutaneous lesion at the site of the bite of an infected mite, fever lasting about two weeks, and a maculopapular rash.
| Descriptor ID |
D012612
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.780.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Scrub Typhus- Scrub Typhus
- Typhus, Scrub
- Tsutsugamushi Fever
- Fever, Tsutsugamushi
- Fevers, Tsutsugamushi
- Tsutsugamushi Fevers
- Tsutsugamushi Disease
- Disease, Tsutsugamushi
- Diseases, Tsutsugamushi
- Tsutsugamushi Diseases
- Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection
- Infection, Orientia tsutsugamushi
- Infections, Orientia tsutsugamushi
- Orientia tsutsugamushi Infections
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scrub Typhus" by people in Profiles.
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Distinguishing Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children From Typhus Using Artificial Intelligence: MIS-C Versus Endemic Typhus (AI-MET). J Infect Dis. 2025 Apr 15; 231(4):931-939.
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Ecological and behavioural risk factors of scrub typhus in central Vietnam: a case-control study. Infect Dis Poverty. 2021 Aug 19; 10(1):110.
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Activation, Impaired Tumor Necrosis Factor-a Production, and Deficiency of Circulating Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells in Patients with Scrub Typhus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 07; 10(7):e0004832.
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Outcome of intravenous azithromycin therapy in patients with complicated scrub typhus compared with that of doxycycline therapy using propensity-matched analysis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014; 58(3):1488-93.
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Inappropriateness of quinolone in scrub typhus treatment due to gyrA mutation in Orientia tsutsugamushi Boryong strain. J Korean Med Sci. 2013 May; 28(5):667-71.
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Scrub typhus induced by peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in the immunocompromised patient: diagnostic usefulness of nested polymerase chain reaction. Transfusion. 2010 Feb; 50(2):467-70.