Orientia tsutsugamushi: A neglected but fascinating obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen

Jeanne Salje

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006657

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Orientia tsutsugamushi: A neglected but fascinating obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen

Jeanne Salje

* E-mail: jeanne.salje@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-4580

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Orientia tsutsugamushi: A neglected but fascinating obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen

Jeanne Salje

Published: December 7, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006657

About the Authors

Jeanne Salje

* E-mail: jeanne.salje@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-4580

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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