Orientia tsutsugamushi stimulates an original gene expression program in monocytes: relationship with gene expression in patients with scrub typhus.

• Principais autores: Wiwit Tantibhedhyangkul (Autor), Thanavadee Prachason (Autor), Duangdao Waywa (Autor), Adil El Filali (Autor), Eric Ghigo (Autor), Wanna Thongnoppakhun (Autor), Didier Raoult (Autor), Yupin Suputtamongkol (Autor), Christian Capo (Autor), Chanin Limwongse (Autor), Jean-Louis Mege (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Orientia tsutsugamushi is the causal agent of scrub typhus, a public health problem in the Asia-Pacific region and a life-threatening disease. O. tsutsugamushi is an obligate intracellular bacterium that mainly infects endothelial cells. We demonstrated here that O. tsutsugamushi also replicated in...