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Rickettsia tsutsugamushi (medicine)


rickettsia tsutsugamushi


A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria that is the aetiologic agent of scrub typhus. Strains of this species vary considerably in antigenic composition and in some cases in virulence and other biological properties.