Work

Orientia tsutsugamushi: A neglected but fascinating obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: O. tsutsugamushi and scrub typhus O. tsutsugamushi is a mite-borne bacterium that causes the life-threatening human disease scrub typhus [2].Small rodents serve as animal reservoirs for O. tsutsugamushi, but the bacterium can also be maintained within mite colonies through transovarial transmission.Symptoms in patients typically begin 6 to 10 days after inoculation by larval stage mites ('chiggers')

Source: PLoS Pathogens

DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006657

Author: Jeanne Salje

Institutions: Mahidol University, University of Oxford, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

Language: English

Topic: Vector-borne infectious diseases

Subfield: Parasitology

Field: Immunology and Microbiology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,043