Research Catalog

Title

Rickettsiology and rickettsial diseases : fifth international conference / edited by Karim E. Hechemy ... [et al.].

Author

International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases (5th : 2008 : Marseille, France)

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Hechemy, Karim E.

Description

viii, 180 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 1166

Subject

• Rickettsial diseases > Congresses
• Rickettsia > Congresses
• Rickettsial diseases in animals > Congresses

Note

• "The fifth International Conference for Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases was held in Marseilles, France on May 18-20, 2008."--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Current knowledge on phylogeny and taxonomy of Rickettsia spp. -- Closing the gaps between genotype and phenotype in Rickettsia rickettsii -- Comparative proteomic analysis of antibiotic-sensitive and insensitive isolates of Orientia tsutsugamushi -- Mitochondrial porin VDAC 1 seems to be functional in rickettsial cells -- Deciphering the relationships between Rickettsia conorii conorii and Rhipicephalus sanguineus in the ecology and epidemiology of Mediterranean spotted fever -- Intracellular life of Coxiella burnetii in macrophages: an update -- Coxiella burnetii glycomics and proteomics: tools for linking structure to function -- Q fever during pregnancy: a cause of poor fetal and maternal outcome -- Q fever in dairy animals -- Advances in rickettsia pathogenicity -- Type IV secretion system of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis -- Ixodes ovatus ehrlichia exhibits unique ultrastructural characteristics in mammalian endothelial and tick-derived cells -- Bartonella endocarditis: a pathology shared by animal reservoirs and patients -- Insights in Bartonella host specificity -- The science and fiction of emerging rickettsioses -- Status of the "East Side hypothesis" (transovarial interference) 25 years later -- Rickettsioses in Australia -- Ecology of rickettsia in South America -- Characterization of rickettsial diseases in a hospital-based population in central Tunisia -- Epidemiology and clinical aspects of rickettsioses in Thailand.

ISBN

• 9781573317504 (pbk.)
• 1573317500 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn373482582
• 373482582
• SCSB-1522691

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library