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Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi

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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. This particular photomicrograph revealed that there were multiple organisms free within the host cell's cytoplasm.
Created: 1978

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