Clinical observations of scrub typhus on Penghu (the Pescadores Islands)

Fang, R.C.; Lin, W.P.; Chao, P.S.; Kuo, N.T.; Chen, C.M.; Fang, R.C; Lin, W.P; Chao, P.S; Kuo, N.T; Chen, C.M

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Clinical observations of scrub typhus on Penghu (the Pescadores Islands)

Fang, R.C.; Lin, W.P.; Chao, P.S.; Kuo, N.T.; Chen, C.M.

Tropical and Geographical Medicine 27(2): 143-150

1975

ISSN/ISBN: 0041-3232

PMID: 1179479

Document Number: 83116

Scrub typhus caused by Rickettsia tsutsugamushi is transmitted on Penghu, in the Pescadores Is. in the Formosa Straits (Taiwan) by Leptotrombidium deliense (Walch). The clinical observations reported here included observations of the eschars, which occurred mostly in the axilla, waist, groin, genitals and neck. These lesions were painless and not noticed by the patients.