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THE work of the last ten years on diseases of the typhus group has permitted us to understand certain sides of them much more clearly. It is now known that there is one disease of this group widely spread in eastern Asia, transmitted from rodents to man by what we should call harvest mites. It should be known as 'scrub typhus' or alternatively as 'mite-borne typhus'. No good general account of it, particularly from the entomological side, is available in print. The disease is of considerable importance in the British Empire.
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Natural History of Scrub Typhus*. Nature 155, 643 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155643a0
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