title: [Tsutsugamushi fever in the Kuril Islands].
abstract: The authors present the results of a 6-year study of tsutsugamushi fever at the Kuril islands. The area of the disease proved to include Southern Kuril islands - Shikotan and Kunashir. The principal natural carriers of tsutsugamushi among the mouse-like rodents and trombiculidae larvae were revealed; highly virulent strains were found to prevail among the tsutsugamushi rickettsia strains. Tsutsugamushi fever in the population is characterized by a benign course, pyrexia, primary affects and lymphadenitis.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008925:Mites / Q000382:microbiology; D051381:Rats; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology; D012612:Scrub Typhus / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D012800:Siberia
vernacular_title: Likhoradka tsutsugamusi n Karil'skikh ostrovakh