kedani
Collocations
5ADJ.
specific
VERB + KEDANI
mite, naming, studies
KEDANI + NOUN
akamushi, disease, japan, nezumidani, trombicula
PREP.
on
ADV.
closely
Definitions
noun
A mite of species (Trombicula akamushi), found in Japan.
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).
Tanaka (175) was the first to distinguish three kinds of akamushi in 1919, naming them "kedani" and "nezumidani" "a" and "b" on the basis of certain morphological differences. Of their habits he says : "The first kind, or kedani, bites both man and field voles;
A disease for which this mite is the vector; tsutsugamushi.
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).
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.
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WiktionaryTanaka (175) was the first to distinguish three kinds of akamushi in 1919, naming them "kedani" and "nezumidani" "a" and "b" on the basis of certain morphological differences. Of their habits he says
WiktionaryThe 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
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