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8743

Caption:

This 1976 transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicted peritoneal mesothelial cells from a mouse that had been experimentally infected with Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organisms. This TEM revealed that the extracellular organisms were covered with a distinct, third outer membrane of probable host cell origin. Formerly known as Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, O. tsutsugamushi is the pathogen responsible for causing the febrile disease known as scrub typhus. The disease is transmitted to humans through the bite of larval trombiculid mites, i.e., chiggers, that had fed on infected rodents.

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CDC/ Dr. Ed Ewing

Creation Date:

1976

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