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Toll-Like Receptor 2 Recognizes Orientia tsutsugamushi and Increases Susceptibility to Murine Experimental Scrub Typhus.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2016
Gharaibeh Mohammad, Hagedorn Monica, Lilla Stefanie, Hauptmann Matthias, Heine Holger, Fleischer Bernhard, Keller Christian
Abstract excerpt
Scrub typhus is a potentially lethal infection that is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi The roles of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and TLR4 in innate recognition of O. tsutsugamushi have not been elucidated. By overexpression of TLR2 or TLR4 in HEK293 cells, we demonstrated that TLR2, but not TLR4, recognizes heat-stable compounds of O. tsutsugamushi that were sensitive to...
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