Immunogenic proteins of Orientia tsutsugamushi and implications for scrub typhus intervention: A narrative review

Scrub typhus is an acute undifferentiated febrile infectious disease transmitted by a chigger (genus Leptotrombidium) bite carrying Orientia (O.) tsutsugamushi, affecting millions of people annually while more than one billion people are susceptible. Endemic areas are expanding to Africa, Europe, Mi...

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Published in:	Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
Main Authors:	Shakshi Shah, Ankita Sharma, Alka Rana, Rakesh Kumar, Amit Kumar Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Dixit Sharma
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2025-04-01
Subjects:	orientia tsutsugamushi immunogenic genes microbial pathogenesis vaccine scrub typhus
Online Access:	https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/apjtm.apjtm_95_24