Scrub typhus: Treatment and prevention - UpToDate

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INTRODUCTION Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi (previously called Rickettsia tsutsugamushi). Scrub typhus is of greatest public health importance in the rural Asian tropics. The endemic zone of this Asian disease extends as far north as the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, as far east as the Solomon Islands, as far south as Queensland, Australia, and as far west as Afghanistan. Scrub typhus is manifested clinically by high fever, cough, intense generalized headache, diffuse myalgias, and, in many patients, rash and an eschar at the site of the…

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