Tag: pathogenesis

Scrub Typhus Diagnostics: The Present and the Future

Scrub Typhus Diagnostics

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a vector-borne, zoonotic disease commonly occurring in a geographic region known as the ‘tsutsugamushi triangle’. Scrub typhus causes acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) with non-specific clinical features and is difficult to diagnose when a highly characteristic but not pathognomonic eschar is […]

Yersinia pestis and Plague: Some Knowns and Unknowns

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal.   Since its first identification in 1894 during the third pandemic in Hong Kong, there has been significant progress in understanding the lifestyle of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that is responsible for plague. Although we now have some understanding of the pathogen’s physiology, genetics, genomics, evolution, gene regulation, pathogenesis […]