Century of rickettsiology : emerging, reemerging rickettsioses, molecular diagnostics, and emerging veterinary rickettsioses /

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Meeting name:International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases (4th : 2005 : Logroño, Spain)
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006.
Description:626 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 1078
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6165438
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Other authors / contributors:Hechemy, Karim E.
New York Academy of Sciences.
ISBN:1573316393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781573316392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1573316016 (alk. paper)
9781573316019 (alk. paper)
Notes:"This volume comprises part of the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, held June 18-21, 2005, in Logroño (La Rioja), Spain"--Prelim. p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:9781573316392
9781573316019
Table of Contents:
  • Overview: A Century of Rickettsiology
  • Insights into Mechanisms of Bacterial Antigenic Variation Derived from the Complete Genome Sequence of Anaplasma marginale
  • Part I. Epidemiology of Rickettsial Disease
  • 1. Rickettsiosis in Europe
  • 2. Epidemiology of Rickettsioses in North Africa
  • 3. Rickettsioses in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4. Rickettsial Diseases in Russia
  • 5. Rickettsioses in Japan and Far East
  • 6. Rickettioses in Australia
  • 7. Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Rickettsioses and Anaplasmoses with Natural Foci in Russia and Kazakhstan
  • 8. Far Eastern Tick-borne Rickettsiosis: Identification of Two New Cases and Tick Vector
  • 9. Seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum among Forestry Rangers in Northern and North-eastern Poland
  • 10. Seroprevalence of Human Anaplasmosis in Slovene Forestry Workers
  • 11. Molecular Epidemiology of Human and Bovine Anaplasmosis in Southern Europe
  • 12. Human exposure to Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Portugal
  • 13. Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA) in North-Eastern Italy
  • 14. Human Infection with Ehrlichia Canis Accompanied by Clinical Ssigns in Venezuela
  • 15. Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis and Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in the United States, 2001- 2002
  • 16. Anthropogenic Effects on Changing of Q Fever Epidemiology in Russia
  • 17. Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain (1984-2004), a Hyperendemic Area of Q Fever
  • 18. Serotesting of Human Q Fever Distribution on Wider Area of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 19. Ticks and Tick-borne Rickettsiae Surveillance in Montesinho Natural Park - Portugal
  • 20. Current Knowledge of Rickettsial Diseases in Italy
  • 21. No Serological Evidence for Rickettsial Diseases among Danish Elite Orienteers
  • 22. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the United States, 1997 -- 2002
  • 23. Rickettsia felis in the Americas
  • 24. Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis in Catalonia, Northeast of Spain
  • 25. Boutonneuse Fever and Climate Variability
  • 26. Brazilian Spotted Fever
  • A Case-series from an Endemic Area in Southeastern Brazil: Epidemiological Aspects
  • 27. Prospective Evaluation of Rickettsioses in the Trakya (European) Region of Turkey and Atypic Presentations of Rickettsia conorii
  • 28. Reemergence of Rickettsiosis in Oran, Algeria
  • 29. Geoinformation Mapping of Siberian Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Foci in Altai Krai
  • 30. Methods of Isolation and Cultivation of New Rickettsiaer from Nozoarea of the North Asian Tick Typhus in Siberia
  • 31. Validation of a Rickettsia prowazekii-specific Quantitative Real-time PCR Cassette and DNA Extraction Protocols Using Experimentally Infected Lice
  • 32. Detection and Identification of a Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in Western Australia
  • 33. Low Incidence of Tick-Borne Rickettsiosis in a Spanish Mediterranean Area
  • Part II. Clinical Asp