Approaches to vaccines against Orientia tsutsugamushi

Scrub typhus is a severe mite-borne infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligately intracellular bacterium closely related to Rickettsia. The disease explains a substantial proportion of acute undifferentiated febrile cases that require hospitalization in rural areas of Asia, the North o...

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Main Authors: Gustavo eValbuena, David H Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2012.00170/full