Approaches to vaccines against Orientia tsutsugamushi [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2013 Scrub typhus is a severe mite-borne infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligately intracellular bacterium closely related to Rickettsia. The disease explains a substantial proportion of acute undifferentiated febrile cases that require hospitalization in rural areas of Asia, the North of Australia, and many islands of the Pacific Ocean ...
Valbuena, Gustavo, Walker, David H.
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A Review of Scrub Typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi and Related Organisms): Then, Now, and Tomorrow
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018 Scrub typhus and the rickettsial diseases represent some of the oldest recognized vector-transmitted diseases, fraught with a rich historical aspect, particularly as applied to military/wartime situations.
Alison Luce-Fedrow +9 more
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Rare Coinfection of Scrub Typhus and Malaria in Immunocompetent Person [PDF]
Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2012 Scrub Typhus, or tsutsugamushi disease is a febrile illness caused by bacteria of the family Rickettsiaceae and named Orientia tsutsugamushi. Recently it has been found to endemic in Subhimalayan region of India.Malaria is highly endemic in rest of India
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Comparative virulence analysis of seven diverse strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi reveals a multifaceted and complex interplay of virulence factors responsible for disease. [PDF]
PLoS PathogOrientia tsutsugamushi is an obligate intracellular bacterium found in Leptotrombidium mites that causes the human disease scrub typhus. A distinguishing feature of O.
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Orientia tsutsugamushi Ank5 promotes NLRC5 cytoplasmic retention and degradation to inhibit MHC class I expression [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHow intracellular bacteria subvert the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I pathway is poorly understood. Here, we show that the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi uses its effector protein, Ank5, to inhibit nuclear ...
Haley E. Adcox +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2017 The relationship between land use structures and occurrence of scrub typhus agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in small wild mammals was conducted in three provinces of Thailand: Buriram, Loei, and Nan. Orientia tsutsugamushi detection was performed
Kittipong Chaisiri +2 more
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Case Report: Encephalitis with Initial Manifestation of Orientia Tsutsugamushi Infection Detected by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing [PDF]
Infection and Drug ResistanceSong Han,1,* Suge Yang,1,* Yun Wang,2 Yingying Xu2 1The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Cheeloo College of Medicine of Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, 250033, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Neurology Medicine,
Han S, Yang S, Wang Y, Xu Y
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Orientia tsutsugamushi, the agent of scrub typhus
WikiJournal of Medicine, 2019 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 ...
Kholhring Lalchhandama
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Genetic Characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi, Bhutan, 2015. [PDF]
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