kedani

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).

1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243

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;

1926, Rinya Kawamura, Nathan Chandler Foot, Shiro Tashiro, Studies on tsutsugamushi disease (Japanese blood fever), page 200

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).

1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243

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;

1960, Pavel Feliksovich Zdrodovskiĭ, Elena Mikhaǐlovna Golinevich, The rickettsial diseases, page 354