scrub typhus

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   transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia

   Synonymstsutsugamushi disease

   Broaderrickettsial disease

Questions about scrub typhus

What does scrub typhus mean?

scrub typhus means "transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia".

What is another word for scrub typhus?

Close synonyms include tsutsugamushi disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrub typhus a common word?

scrub typhus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.