The Rickettsiales are a group of obligate intracellular vector-borne Gram-negative bacteria
that include many organisms of clinical and agricultural importance, including Anaplasma …

Ecology and epidemiology. Scrub typhus is a life-threatening infectious disease that
presents as an acute undifferentiated febrile illness. Its agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi, is an …

The genus Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales, Rickettsiaceae) is comprised of
obligate intracellular parasites, with virulent species of interest both as causes of emerging …

Scrub typhus is a mite-borne, acute febrile illness caused by the bacterium Orientia
tsutsugamushi. It is a re-emerging infectious disease of the tsutsugamushi triangle. Scrub …

Autotransporters are the core component of a molecular nano-machine that delivers cargo
proteins across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Part of the type V secretion …

Scrub typhus is a severe mite-borne infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an
obligately intracellular bacterium closely related to Rickettsia. The disease explains a …

Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT), the causative agent of the vector-borne Scrub typhus zoonotic
disease in humans, is a unique microorganism that exists in the Asia-Pacific region since a …

Background Scrub typhus is a mite-borne febrile disease caused by O. tsutsugamushi
infection. Recently, emergence of scrub typhus has attracted considerable attention in …

The order Rickettsiales includes species that cause a range of human diseases such as
human granulocytic anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum), human monocytic …

Orientia tsutsugamushi is the etiologic agent of scrub typhus, the deadliest of all diseases
caused by obligate intracellular bacteria. Nucleomodulins, bacterial effectors that …