n :  an acute febrile bacterial disease that is caused by a rickettsial bacterium (Rickettsia tsutsugamushi) transmitted by mite larvae, resembles louse-borne typhus, and is widespread in the western Pacific area - called also scrub typhus , sutsugamushi  .
 
    
 
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