Century of Rickettsiology: Emerging, Reemerging Rickettsioses, Molecular Diagnostics, and Emerging Veterinary Rickettsioses, Volume 1078

The worldwide epidemiology of rickettsial diseases, including veterinary rickettsiology, is the focus of this volume, which is the second volume resulting from the 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases.
The heterogeneity of clinical presentations of rickettsial diseases is greater than had previously been appreciated, and atypical and previously unseen presentations are discussed here along with chapters on known vectors and vectors previously not known to transmit a given rickettsial species.
This volume and volume 1063, New Insights into Rickettsioses, complete the picture presented at the conference of the wide range of work that is being carried out in rickettsiology worldwide.

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Spis treści:
Overview: A Century of Rickettsiology. (Karim E. Hechemy).
Insights into Mechanisms of Bacterial Antigenic Variation Derived from the Complete Genome Sequence of Anaplasma Marginale. (Guy H. Palmer & Kelly A. Brayton.).
Part I: Epidemiology of Rickettsial Disease.
1. Rickettsiosis in Europe. (J.R. Blanco & J.A.Oteo).
2. Epidemiology of Rickettsioses in North Africa. (Amel Letaief).
3. Rickettsioses in Sub–Saharan Africa. (P. Parola).
4. Rickettsial Diseases in Russia. Irina V. Tarasevich & Oleg Y. Mediannikov.
5. Rickettsioses in Japan and Far East. (Fumihiko Mahara).
6. Rickettioses in Austra lia. (Stephen Graves & John Stenos).
7. Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Tick–Borne Rickettsioses and Anaplasmoses with Natural Foci in Russia and Kazakhstan. (Nikolay Rudakov & Didier Raoult).
8. Far Eastern Tick–borne Rickettsiosis: Identification of Two New Cases and Tick Vector. (Oleg Mediannikov & Didier Raoult).
9. Seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum among Forestry Rangers in Northern and North–eastern Poland. (Joanna Stańczak & Anna Grzeszczuk).
10. Seroprevalence of Human Anaplasmosis in Slovene Forestry Workers. (Tereza Rojko & Stanka Lotric–Furlan).
11. Molecular Epidemiology of Human and Bovine Anaplasmosis in Southern Europe. (Victoria Naranjo & José de la Fuente).
12. Human exposure to Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Portugal. (A.S. Santos & J.S. Dumler).
13. Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA) in North–Eastern Italy. (Anna Beltrame & Pierluigi Viale).
14. Human Infection with Ehrlichia Canis Accompanied by Clinical Ssigns in Venezuela. (Miriam Perez & Yasuko Rikihisa).
15. Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis and Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in the United States, 2001– 2002. (Linda J. Demma & D.L. Swerdlow).
16. Anthropogenic Effects on Changing of Q Fever Epidemiology in Russia. (N.K.Tokarevicha & E.V.Vorobeichikov).
17. Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain (1984–2004), a Hyperendemic Area of Q Fever. (M. Montes & E. Perez–Trallero).
18. Serotesting of Human Q Fever Distribution on Wider Area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (S. Hamzić & Š. Zvizdić).
19. Ticks and Tick–borne Rickettsiae Surveillance in Montesinho Natural Park – Portugal. (M. Santos–Silva & F. Bacellar).
20. Current Knowledge of Rickettsial Diseases in Italy. (Lorenzo Ciceroni & Alessandra Ciervo).
21. No Serological Evidence for Rickett sial Diseases among Danish Elite Orienteers. (Peter Schiellerup & Karen A. Krogfelt).
22. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the United States, 1997 – 2002. (A.S. Chapman & D.L. Swerdlow).
23. Rickettsia Felis in the Americas: M.A.M. (Galvão & D.H. Walker).
24. Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Catalonia, Northeast of Spain. (María Mercedes Nogueras & Ferran Segura).
25. Boutonneuse Fever and Climate Variability. (Rita de Sousa & Fatima Bacella).
26. Brazilian Spotted Fever. A Case–series from an Endemic Area in Southeastern Brazil: Epidemiological Aspects. (R.N. Angerami & L.J. Silva).
27. Prospective Evaluation of Rickettsioses in the Trakya (European) Region of Turkey and Atypic Presentations of Rickettsia Conorii. (F. Kuloglu & D. Raoult).
28. Reemergence of Rickettsiosis in Oran, Algeria. (N. Mouffok & D. Raoult).
29. Geoinformation Mapping of Siberian Tick–borne Rickettsiosis Foci in Altai Krai. (Nadezhda Yu.Kurepina & Nikolai V. Rudakov).
30. Methods of Isolation and Cultivation of New Rickettsiaer from Nozoarea of the North Asian Tick Typhus in Siberia. (I.E. Samoylenko & N.V. Rudakov).
31. Validation of a Rickettsia Prowazekii–specific Quantitative Real–time PCR Cassette and DNA Extraction Protocols Using Experimentally Infected Lice. (Patrick J. Rozmajzl & Allen L. Richards).
32. Detection and Identification of a Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in Western Australia. (Helen Owen & Stan Fenwick).
33. Low Incidence of Tick–Borne Rickettsiosis in a Spanish Mediterranean Area. (A. Guerrero, F. Gimeno, M. Cuenca).
Part II: Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis.
34. Rickettsia slovaca infection. Debonel/Tibola. (V. Ibarra & M. Sanz).
35. Arthropod–borne Diseases in Homeless. (Philippe Brouqui & Didier Raoult).
36. C linical Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Granulocytotropic Anaplasmosis. (Johan S. Bakken & J. Stephen Dumler).
37. Brazilian Spotted Fever. A Case–series from an Endemic Area in Southeastern Brazil: Clinical Aspects. (R.N. Angerami & L.J. Silva).
38. Revisiting Brazilian Spotted Fever Focus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais State, BRAZIL. (Mam Galvão & D.H. Walker).
39. Fatal Brazilian Spotted Fever Confirmed by Immunohistochemical Staining and Sequencing Methods on Fixed Tissues. (Tatiana Rozental & Elba R. S. Lemos).
40. Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii and Rickettsia spp. in 24 Patient Blood Clots from Different Municipalities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. (Flávia Sousa Gehrke & Teresinha Tizu Sato Schumake).
41. Rickettsia Side Effects on a Sexual Partner and Eradication Process of Rickettsia in the Infected Person: An Example of the Clare Effect. (Maurita C. McKay & Frank Parsons).
42. Mediterranean Spotted Fever in Crete Greece: Clinical and Therapeutic Data of 15 Consecutive Patients (A. Germanakis & Y. Tselentis).
Part III: Vectors.
43. Prevalence of Rickettsia felis–like and Bartonella spp. in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from La Rioja (Northern Spain). (J.R. Blanco & J.A. Oteo).
44. The Prediction of Habitat Suitability for Ticks. (Agustín Estrada–Peña).
45. Natural Infection, Transovarial Transmission, and Transstadial Survival of Rickettsia bellii in the Tick Ixodes Loricatus (Acari: Ixodidae) from Brazil. (Mauricio C. Horta & Marcelo B. Labruna).
46. Prevalence of Bacterial Agents in Ixodes Persulcatus Ticks from Vologda Province of Russia. (Marina E. Eremeeva & Gregory A. Dasch).
47. Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Uruguay. (J. M. Venzal & J. A. Oteo).
48. Highly Variable Year to Year Prevalence of Anaplasma ph