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This transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicts a single Orientia tsutsugamushi bacterium, formerly known as Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, that was free within the cytoplasm of a mouse brain capillary endothelial cell. The infected cell (right) shows signs of hypertrophy, while the uninfected adjacent endothelial cell (left) remained normally thin and flat.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr.
Creation Date: 1977
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