Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi
Description:
This 1976 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicted an extracellular Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organism, covered with a distinct third outer membrane of probable host mesothelial cell origin. The specimen from which this image was obtained, was extracted from the peritoneal cavity of experimentally infected mouse.
Created: 1976
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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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