Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi
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This 1978 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicted a brain capillary of a mouse that had been experimentally infected intravenously with Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organisms. Revealed by this TEM, was the presence of pericapillary hemorrhage and edema. Several of the O. tsutsugamushi organisms were visible within the cytoplasm of a degenerating capillary endothelial cell.
Created: 1978
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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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