Abstract
Nobi-fever or Miura-fever, a feverous and exanthematous disease has been recently determined by us to be a variety of Tsutsugamushi disease. It is in it's clinical and epidemiological characteristics very similar to Shichito-fever (Tsutsugamushi disease) and to Tsutsugamushi disease found in the Boso-and Izu-peninsula area.
The authors treated 67 cases and a detailed report is made on 5 cases with typical forms.
In blood of the first two patients “Rickettsia tsutsugamushi” was detected and the same was found in blood of field mice which was caught near the residence of the third patient.
Although we were not able to find evidence of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in blood of the forth and fifth patients, the cases were typical Tsutsugamushi disease from a clinical and epidemiological point of view.
In April 1958 at the General Meeting of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases a summary of this report was submitted verbally.
