Evidences for Trombicula scutellaris to be a vector of scrub typhus in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- Published by Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology in Medical Entomology and Zoology
- Vol. 10 (4) , 232-244
- https://doi.org/10.7601/mez.10.232
Abstract
Among the cases of scrub typhus newly recognized in Japan after the World War II, those prevalent in the Izu Shichito Islands of Tokyo Prefecture, in Awa-gun, Chiba Prefecture, and in Mt. Fuji area, Shizuoka Prefecture, are called as the "Shichito type scrub typhus" or as the "scutellaris type scrub typhus, " and Trombicula scutellaris has been presumably incriminated as a potential vector of this type of scrub typhus. The study on scrub typhus in Chiba Prefecture was commenced in 1952, when the so called "twentydays fever, " an endemic disease in this Prefecture, was assumed to belong to a scrub typhus by Kasahara et al. (1952) and Kitaoka et al. (1952).Keywords
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