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 …

Orientia tsutsugamushi is the etiological agent of scrub typhus, an acute, mite-borne, febrile
illness that occurs in the Asia-Pacific region. Historically, strain characterization used …

Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular bacterium, was isolated for the first time in
1930. Infections by virulent strains are characterized by fever, rash, eschar, pneumonia …

Subunit vaccine discovery is an accepted clinical priority. The empirical approach is time-
and labor-consuming and can often end in failure. Rational information-driven approaches …

Many bacterial infections are major health problems worldwide, and treatment of many of
these infectious diseases is becoming increasingly difficult due to the development of …

Anaplasma marginale is an intraerythrocytic rickettsial pathogen of cattle in which infection
persists for the life of the animal. Persistent A. marginale infection is characterized by …

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

Scrub typhus, an acute, febrile and potentially fatal disease, caused by infection with the
obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi, is commonly seen in the Asia-Pacific …

Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi infection, is characterized by local as well
as systemic inflammatory manifestations. Inflammation is initiated by O. tsutsugamushi …