Kedani

Quick meaning: Kedani is a noun meaning A mite of species (Trombicula akamushi), found in Japan.

Meaning

A mite of species (Trombicula akamushi), found in Japan.

More Meanings

1. A disease for which this mite is the vector; tsutsugamushi.

Example Sentences

These facts, together with the occurrence of a rash, show that the disease possesses many of the features which characterize kedani or tsutsugamushi fever of Japan.

The kedani mite (Trombicula akamushi) is the vector of Japanese river fever or tsutsugamushi disease in the northern part of Japan, in Formosa, the Yangtze valley of China, Siam, French Indo-China and Malaya.

Formerly this disease was called Japanese river fever, kedani disease, or scrub typhus fever. Tsutsugamushi fever is endemic over a wide area of South-East Asia and the south eastern part of the Pacific Ocean;

The recent studies on the kedani disease of Japan are extremely interesting as examples of proteus infection through the wounds inflicted by an insect, a specific mite (kedani) closely allied to the harvest-mite (Leptus autumnalis).

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