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MITE-BORNE scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi disease) was a serious military problem in the Japanese campaign, and units unlucky enough to strike endemic foci suffered heavily1. The epidenir iology of the disease was investigated in North Burma by the U.S. Typhus Commission, and in the Imphal area (Manipur, Assam) by a team based on the Scrub Typhus Research Laboratory, which attempted to do complementary work, particularly on the ecology of the disease.
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AUDY, J. SCRUB TYPHUS AS A STUDY IN ECOLOGY*. Nature 159, 295–296 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159295a0
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