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Trends in the incidence of scrub typhus: the fastest growing vector-borne disease in Korea.
[scrub typhus]
Scrub
typhus
,
also
called
tsutsugamushi
disease
,
is
classified
as
a
Group
3
disease
in
Korea
according
to
the
National
Notifiable
Diseases
Surveillance
Systems
.
It
is
an
infectious
disease
transmitted
to
humans
through
the
bite
of
mites
that
are
infected
with
an
intracellular
parasite
called
Orientia
tsutsugamushi
(
Family
:
Rickettsiaceae
)
.
This
study
aims
to
identify
the
demographic
characteristics
of
the
infected
cases
according
to
profession
,
region
,
gender
,
and
onset
period
and
provide
a
basic
data
for
prevention
and
control
of
the
disease
in
the
infected
patients
.
Between
2001
and
2010
,
16
,
741
men
(
36
.
3
%
)
and
29
,
373
women
(
63
.
7
%
)
were
reported
to
have
been
infected
with
scrub
typhus
,
with
men
being
1
.
6
times
less
infected
than
women
.
When
classified
according
to
age
,
it
was
found
that
4421
persons
(
9
.
6
%
)
were
under
40
years
of
age
;
6601
(
13
.
1
%
)
in
their
40
s
;
9714
(
21
.
1
%
)
in
their
50
s
;
13
,
067
(
28
.
3
%
)
in
60
s
;
10
,
128
(
22
.
0
%
)
in
their
70
s
;
and
2723
(
5
.
9
%
)
aged
80
or
more
.
The
elderly
(
60
years
or
older
)
represented
more
than
half
of
the
infected
cases
.
When
the
infections
were
classified
according
to
region
,
it
was
found
that
the
county
residents
had
the
major
share
of
infection
,
with
a
total
of
1583
infected
cases
(
59
.
85
)
.
Diseases
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Diseases presenting
"called tsutsugamushi disease"
symptom
scrub typhus
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