Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Orientia tsutsugamushi (Ot), an intracellular bacterium in the family Rickettsiaceae, is the etiological agent of scrub typhus. Understanding of the immunologic responses to Ot infection, particularly immunity after infection, has remained a major knowledge gap. Although anti-Ot IgG appears to be short-lived in infected humans, recent studies have reported autoreactive IgM […]