Rickettsia¶
Two types of disease¶
- Spotted fever
- 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];