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Rickettsia


Two types of disease

  1. Spotted fever
  2. typus
graph TD
    A[Spotted fever];
    B[Rickettssi, Rickettsia conorii];
    C[Typus];
    D[Orientia tsutsugamushi,Rickettsia typhi,Ricketsia Prowazekii];
    B -->A;
    D--> C;

Sites of infection

graph LR
    A[Rickettsia];
    B[Rickettsia akari and O. tsutsugamushi];
    C[endothelial cell of blood vessels];

    A---> C;
    B--> D[monocytes];