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This transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image revealed an Orientia tsutsugamushi bacterium, formerly known as Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, as it was in the process of budding from a mouse peritoneal mesothelial cell. Note that the bacterium was still covered by the host cell’s plasma membrane.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr.
Creation Date: 1976
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