恙虫病是地方性斑疹伤寒的一种,病原体称为东方立克次体(R.tus—gamushi)。寄生在鼠类(田鼠或家鼠),借幼恙虫的媒介造成鼠与鼠间互相传染,人若被带有本病病原体的幼恙虫叮咬时,便能感染本病。恙虫病最早于1879年由Palm氏在日本发现,一向流行于日本秋田、新泻及山杉等县。我国古代医学书籍中在一千多年前,晋 Tsutsugamushi disease is a type of endemic typhus and the pathogen is called R. tus-gamushi. Parasitic in rodents (voles or domestic mice), caused by the vector of scrub tyranny and mouse mutual infection, if the person with the pathogen of the disease when the scrub bites, they can become infected with the disease. Tsutsugamushi disease was first discovered by Palm in Japan in 1879 and has been popular in Japan's Akita, Niigata and Yaesu counties. Ancient Chinese medical books in more than a thousand years ago, Jin