Orientia tsutsugamushi

Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - nontumor
Infectious (nonviral) disorders
Orientia tsutsugamushi

Topic Completed: 1 May 2012

Revised: 23 January 2019, last major update May 2012

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Definition / general | Additional references

Cite this page: Arora K. Orientia tsutsugamushi. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/liverorientia.html. Accessed June 25th, 2019.

Definition / general

Formerly called Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Rickettsiael agent of scrub typhus, a chigger borne zoonosis highly prevalent and life threatening in tropical Asia and islands of western Pacific Ocean
Present within liver and spleen macrophages and cardiac muscle cells
Also endothelial cells of heart, lung, brain, kidney, pancreas, skin
Transmitted to humans via larval mite (chigger) during feeding

Additional references

Mod Pathol 2001;14:752