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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Research Letter

Transmission Electron Microscopy Confirmation of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Human Bile

Yujeong Lee1, Seung Il Kim1, Yoon-sun Yi, Hayoung Lee, Joo-Hee Hwang, Edmond Changkyun Park, Sangmi Jun2Comments to Author , and Chang-Seop Lee2
Author affiliations: Korea Basic Science Institute, Cheongju, South Korea (Y. Lee, S.I. Kim, Y.-s. Yi, H. Lee, E.C. Park, S. Jun); Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, South Korea (Y. Lee, S.I. Kim, E.C. Park, S. Jun); University of Science and Technology, Daejeon (S.I. Kim, H. Lee, E.C. Park); Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea (J.-H. Hwang, C.-S. Lee); Jeonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju (J.-H. Hwang, C.-S. Lee)

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Findings from a 68-year-old woman with scrub typhus, South Korea, 2019. A) Eschar in the right inguinal area. B) Human bile collected through percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage in the gallbladder of a patient affected with scrub typhus. C–F) Transmission electron microscopy images of Orientia tsutsugamushi in the bile. Bacteria (black asterisks); outer membrane (OM) and plasma membrane (PM) (red arrows); multilamellar body (black arrowheads); Scale bars indicate 1 μm.

Figure. Findings from a 68-year-old woman with scrub typhus, South Korea, 2019. A) Eschar in the right inguinal area. B) Human bile collected through percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage in the gallbladder of a patient affected with scrub typhus. C–F) Transmission electron microscopy images of Orientia tsutsugamushi in the bile. Bacteria (black asterisks); outer membrane (OM) and plasma membrane (PM) (red arrows); multilamellar body (black arrowheads); Scale bars indicate 1 μm.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors were co-principal investigators.

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