Active Escape of Orientia tsutsugamushi from Cellular Autophagy

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Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus, is an obligate intracellular pathogen. After entry into host cells, the bacterium rapidly escapes from the endosomal pathway and replicates in the cytosol of eukaryotic host cells. Here we show that O. tsutsugamushi infection efficiently promotes cellular autophagy, a cell-autonomous defense mechanism of innate immunity. However, most of the...

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