tsutsugamushi disease

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   transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia

   Synonymsscrub typhus

   Broaderrickettsial disease

Questions about tsutsugamushi disease

What does tsutsugamushi disease mean?

tsutsugamushi disease means "transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia".

What is another word for tsutsugamushi disease?

Close synonyms include scrub typhus. 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 tsutsugamushi disease a common word?

tsutsugamushi disease 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.