[Contribution of I.V. Tarasevich to the study of tsutsugamushi disease].

This article summarizes the results of study of tsutsugamushi disease in the Primorye and Tadzhikistan, in its epidemiology, diagnosis and biology of the Rickettsia tsutsugamushi. There is also information on the vectors of the disease, rickettsial infection within chiggers and transtadial transmission from larva to nymph, hosts of trombiculids and natural infection with R. tsutsugamushi.