The Obligate Intracellular Bacterium <i>Orientia tsutsugamushi</i> Targets NLRC5 To Modulate the Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Pathway

Kyle G. Rodino, Haley E. Adcox, Rebecca Martin, Vaidehi Patel, Daniel H. Conrad, Jason A. Carlyon

Infection and Immunity · 2018 · 23 citations · 39 references

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Orientia tsutsugamushi is an obligate intracellular bacterium that infects mononuclear and endothelial cells to cause the emerging global health threat scrub typhus. The ability of O. tsutsugamushi to survive in monocytes facilitates bacterial dissemination to endothelial cells, which can subsequently lead to several potentially fatal sequelae.

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