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Orientia
Sign in to saveOrientia is a genus of bacteria in family Rickettsiaceae. They are obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacteria found in insects and mammals. They are spread through the bites or feces of infected insects.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumProteobacteria
- ClassAlphaproteobacteria
- OrderRickettsiales
- FamilyRickettsiaceae
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Research
2,215 papers- Orientia and Rickettsia: different flowers from the same garden.Current opinion in microbiology · 2023
- Orientia tsutsugamushi.Trends in microbiology · 2020
- Orientia tsutsugamushi: The dangerous yet neglected foe from the East.International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM · 2021
- Orientia tsutsugamushi: An Unusual Intracellular Bacteria-Adaptation Strategies, Available Antibiotics, and Alternatives for Treatment.Current microbiology · 2024
- Orientia tsutsugamushi Ank5 promotes NLRC5 cytoplasmic retention and degradation to inhibit MHC class I expression.Nature communications · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Rickettsiaceae
- Image
- Orientia tsutsugamushi.JPG
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- taxon name
- Orientia
- taxon rank
- genus
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- Commons category
- Orientia
- LPSN URL
- www.bacterio.net/orientia.html
- taxonomic type
- Orientia tsutsugamushi
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Species
- Candidatus Orientia chiloensis
- References
- External links
Orientia is a genus of bacteria in family Rickettsiaceae. They are obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacteria found in insects and mammals. They are spread through the bites or feces of infected insects.
The genus comprises the species Orientia tsutsugamushi and Orientia chuto, which both cause scrub typhus in humans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orientia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.