Scrub typhus is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area. It threatens one
billion people globally, and causes illness in one million people each year. Caused by …

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

Practical Handbook of Microbiology, 4th edition provides basic, clear and concise
knowledge and practical information about working with microorganisms. Useful to anyone …

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 …

It is estimated that approximately one billion people are at risk of infection with obligate
intracellular bacteria, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms that govern their …

Recent discoveries of basal extracellular Rickettsiales have illuminated divergent
evolutionary paths to host dependency in later-evolving lineages. Family Rickettsiaceae …

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 …

Rickettsiales are a lineage of obligate intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, encompassing
important human pathogens, manipulators of host reproduction, and mutualists. Here we …

Intracellular bacteria have developed numerous strategies to hijack host vesicular trafficking
pathways to form their unique replicative niches. To promote intracellular replication, the …

Many of the human infectious pathogens—especially the zoonotic or vector-borne bacteria—
are fastidious organisms that are difficult to cultivate because of their strong adaption to the …