Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Description:

This 1978 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicted a brain capillary of mouse that had been experimentally infected intravenously with Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organisms. In this micrographic view revealed pericapillary edema, the capillary lumen was partially occluded by a thrombus, and flanking the thrombus, a hypertrophic endothelial cell containing a visible organism free within its cytoplasm.
Created: 1978