Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot) is an obligate intracellular bacterium in the family Rickettsiaceae that causes scrub typhus, a severe mite-borne human disease. Ot is unusual amongst Rickettsiaceae in budding out of infected cells in a process resembling that used by enveloped viruses. Here, we show tha...
ORGANISM(S): Orientia Tsutsugamushi