Overview
Scrub typhus: Type of typhus usually caught from ticks. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Scrub typhus is available below.
Symptoms of Scrub typhus
- Skin lesion - at the site of infection.
- Regional lymphadenopathy
- Fever
- Skin rash - maculopapular rash
Causes
- This is an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium that has a large number of serotypes. Five serotypes, Karp, Gilliam, Kawazaki, Boryon, and Kato, are helpful in serologic diagnosis.
- This pathogen does not have a vacuolar membrane; thus, it freely grows in the cytoplasm of infected cells.
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