Abstract
Little information concerning scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi fever) as it occurs in Dutch New Guinea has ever been recorded. Gunther (1940) stated that although numerous cases of scrub typhus had been noted in territories under Australian mandate, no cases had ever been reported from Dutch New Guinea. It is known, Kohls et al (1945), that in New Guinea the disease is caused by Rickettsia orientalis, that these organisms are found in native wild rat populations, that certain species of mites belonging to the subfamily TROMBICULINAE are vectors, and that these mites appear to prefer grassy moist areas in which to complete their development. This report is a study of an epidemic of scrub typhus which occurred among American troops during August and September of 1944 at an advanced base in Dutch New Guinea.
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