Image of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Description:

This 1976 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicted a peritoneal mesothelial cell from a mouse that had been experimentally infected intraperitoneally with Orientia tsutsugamushi rickettsial micro-organisms. In this particular field of view, an organism was photographically captured as it was budding from the luminal cell surface, while still covered by a third layer consisting of the host cell's plasma membrane.
Created: 1976