Reemergence of Scrub Typhus Associated with Leptotrombidium akamushi Mites and Karp-Like Orientia tsutsugamushi Genotype Bacteria, Japan, 2024-2025.

doi:10.3201/eid3209.260646

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Reemergence of Scrub Typhus Associated with Leptotrombidium akamushi Mites and Karp-Like Orientia tsutsugamushi Genotype Bacteria, Japan, 2024-2025.

Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2026

Ogawa Motohiko, Takada Nobuhiro, Katayama Takashi, Hashimoto Yuki, Nagano Kei, Komine Hirotaka, Akeda Yukihiro

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Scrub typhus is a miteborne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria. In Japan, most cases occur in spring and autumn and are transmitted by Leptotrombidium pallidum and L. scutellare mites; summer scrub typhus, transmitted by L. akamushi mites, is rarely reported. In August 2024, a pregnant woman had scrub typhus develop after attending a fireworks event in Niigata Prefecture, Japan,...

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PMID: 42661144
DOI: 10.3201/eid3209.260646

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