Sentence:  The recent studies on the <WSD>kedani</WSD> 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). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A disease for which this mite is the vector; tsutsugamushi.