TSUTSUGAMUSHI FEVER: AGGLUTINATION REACTIONS AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS IN 25 CASES

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Article1 February 1946TSUTSUGAMUSHI FEVER: AGGLUTINATION REACTIONS AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS IN 25 CASESIRVING GREENFIELDIRVING GREENFIELDSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-24-2-192 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptRickettsial diseases have been known to man for over a thousand years.1 With the advent of World War II, a large concentration of our armed forces has been on active duty in the regions of the globe where rickettsial diseases are endemic. One of these rickettsial diseases, epidemic or Old World typhus, has been the subject of concern in the past. As the result, considerable knowledge concerning it has been accumulated.2Tsutsugamushi fever, one of the other rickettsial diseases, is an acute febrile disease transmitted to man by the bite of the larval stage3of the kedani mite. Clinically, it...Bibliography1. SAMBEN LW: Parasitic ascariasis of animals and the part they play in the causation of eruptive fevers and other diseases of man. Preliminary consideration based on ecological study of typhus fever, Ann. Trop. Med., 1928, xxii, 67. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. STRONG RP: Stitt's diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of tropical diseases, 6th edition, 1943, The Blakiston Co., Philadelphia, vol. 2, p. 928. Google Scholar3. SADUSK JK: Scrub typhus, Trop. Med. News, 1944, i, 4. Google Scholar4. HAYASHI N: Etiology of tsutsugamushi diseases, Jr. Parasitol., 1920, vii, 53. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. OGATA N: Aetiologie der Tsutsugamushikrankheit, Zentralbl. f. Bakt., 1931, (Abt 1), cxxii, 249. Google Scholar6. LEWTHWAITESAVOOR RSR: Typhus group of diseases in Malaya: relation of rural typhus to tsutsugamushi disease with special reference to cross immunization tests, Brit. Jr. Exper. Path., 1936, xvii, 249. Google Scholar7. GUNTHER CE: Trembidiid larvae in New Guinea, Proc. Linneau Soc. New South Wales, 1939, lxiv. Google Scholar8. LIPPMANBYRONCASEY BLAAV: A clinical survey of scrub typhus fever, Bull. U. S. Army Med. Dept., 1944, lxxii, 63. Google Scholar9. AHLMLIPSHUTZ CEJ: Tsutsugamushi fever in the South West Pacific Theatre, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1944, cxxiv, 1095. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. SUPFLEFISHER KH: Experiences with the Weil-Felix reaction, Arch. Hyg. Bakt., 1943, cxxix, 158. Google Scholar11. TOPPING NH: Typhus fever, Am. Jr. Trop. Med., 1944, xxiv, 158. Google Scholar12. CORBETT AJ: Scrub typhus, Bull. U. S. Army Med. Dept., No. 70: Nov. 1943, 34-54. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication June 23, 1945. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 February 1946Volume 24, Issue 2Page: 192-202KeywordsArmed forcesAttentionFeversMitesResearch laboratoriesTyphus Issue Published: 1 February 1946 PDF DownloadLoading ...