Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi
Description:
This 1976 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicted a hypertrophic peritoneal mesothelial cell of mouse that had been experimentally infected intraperitoneally with Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organisms. A disintegrating organism was shown within a host cell's phagocytic vacuole.
Created: 1976
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Bacteria
- Proteobacteria (Purple Bacteria & relatives)
- Alphaproteobacteria (alphaproteobacterium; alphaproteobacteria)
- Rickettsiales
- Rickettsiaceae
- Orientia
- Orientia tsutsugamushi
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