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. Captured here in this TEM was the initiation of the process of phagocytosis being carried out on one of the O. tsutsugamushi micro-organisms.
Created: 1976