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Title

Rickettsial diseases / edited by Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola.

Publication

New York : Informa Healthcare, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Raoult, Didier.
• Parola, Philippe.

Description

xi, 379 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm.

Series Statement

Infectious disease and therapy ; 43

Uniform Title

Infectious disease and therapy ; v. 43.

Subjects

• Rickettsial diseases
• Rickettsia Infections > therapy
• Rickettsia Infections > physiopathology
• Rickettsia Infections > microbiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Bacteriology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Rickettsia / Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult -- 2. Pathogenesis, immunity, pathology, and pathophysiology in rickettsial diseases / David H. Walker, Nahed Ismail, Juan P. Olano, Gustavo Valbuena and Jere McBride -- 3. Arthropods and rickettsiae / Sam R. Telford III and Philippe Parola -- 4. Murine typhus / Yanis Tselentis and Achilleas Gikas -- 5. Louse-borne epidemic typhus / Linda Houhamdi and Didier Raoult -- 6. Rickettsialpox / Christopher D. Paddock and Marina E. Eremeeva -- 7. Flea-borne spotted fever / Abir Znazen and Didier Raoult -- 8. Rocky Mountain spotted fever / James E. Childs and Christopher D. Paddock -- 9. African tick-bite fever / Mogens Jensenius, Lucy Ndip and Bjorn Myrvang -- 10. Rickettsia conorii infections (Mediterranean spotted fever, Israeli spotted fever, Indian tick typhus, Astrakhan fever) / Clarisse Rovery and Didier Raoult -- 11. Other tick-borne rickettsioses / Oleg Mediannikov, Philippe Parola and Didier Raoult -- 12. Other rickettsiae of possible or undetermined pathogenicity / Oleg Mediannikov, Christopher D. Paddock and Philippe Parola -- 13. Bacteriology and phylogeny of anaplasmataceae / Philippe Brouqui and Kotaro Matsumoto -- 14. Vectors and reservoir hosts of anaplasmataceae / Hisashi Inokuma -- 15. Human ehrlichioses / Juan P. Olano -- 16. Anaplasmosis in humans / Anna Grzeszczuk, Nicole C. Barat, Johan S. Bakken and J. Stephen Dumler -- 17. Orientia tsutsugamushi and scrub typhus / George Watt and Pacharee Kantipong -- 18. Bacteriology of Coxiella / Katja Mertens and James E. Samuel -- 19. Immune response to Q fever / Jean-Louis Mege -- 20. Epidemiology of Q fever / Thomas J. Marrie -- 21. Clinical aspects, diagnosis, and treatment of Q fever / Herve Tissot-Dupont and Didier Raoult -- 22. Wolbachia and filarial nematode diseases in humans / Kelly L. Johnston and Mark J. Taylor -- 23. Diagnostic strategy of rickettsioses and ehrlichioses / Florence Fenollar, Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult -- 24. Rickettsial diseases of domestic animals / Patrick J. Kelly -- 25. Genomics of rickettsial agents / Hiroyuki Ogata and Patricia Renesto -- 26. Antimicrobial susceptibility of rickettsial agents / Jean-Marc Rolain.

ISBN

• 9780849376115 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0849376114 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006101892

OCLC

• ocm77270890
• 77270890
• SCSB-5339365

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries