Orientia tsutsugamushi, the agent of scrub typhus
Orientia tsutsugamushi is a mite-borne bacterium belonging to the family Rickettsiaceae and is responsible for the disease scrub typhus in humans. It is an obligate intracellular parasite of trombiculid mites, in which natural transmission is maintained from the female to its eggs (transovarial tran...
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| Language: | English |
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WikiJournal User Group
2019-09-01
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| Series: | WikiJournal of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Orientia_tsutsugamushi,_the_agent_of_scrub_typhus |