| H00324 | |
| H number | H00324 |
| 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 | Bacterial infectious disease |
| Network | - |
| Gene | - |
| Pathogen | Orientia tsutsugamushi [GN:ots ott] (mite-borne typhus) |
| Env factor | - |
| Carcinogen | - |
| Drug | - |
| 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 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 |