Orientia Tsutsugamushi - Vaccine

Vaccine

There are currently no licensed scrub typhus vaccines available. It is now known that there is enormous antigenic variation in Orientia tsutsugamushi strains,and immunity to one strain does not confer immunity to another. Any scrub typhus vaccine should give protection to all the strains present locally, in order to give an acceptable level of protection. A vaccine developed for one locality may not be protective in another locality, because of antigenic variation. This complexity continues to hamper efforts to produce a viable vaccine.

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