An Update on Host-Pathogen Interplay and Modulation of Immune Responses during Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection

Abstract

The obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi is the causative agent of scrub typhus in humans, a serious mite-borne disease present in a widespread area of endemicity, which affects an estimated 1 million people every year. This disease may