Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases - FifthﾠInternational Conference

Foreword (Karim E. Hechemy, Philippe Brouqui, James E. Samuel,and Didier A. Raoult).

1. Current knowledge on phylogeny, and taxonomy of Rickettsiaspp (Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult).

2. Closing the Gaps between Genotype and Phenotype in Rickettsiarickettsii (Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch).

3. Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Antibiotic-Sensitive andInsensitive Isolates of O. tsutsugamushi (Chien-Chung Chao,Donita L. Garland, Gregory A. Dasch, and Wei-Mei Ching).

4. Mitochondrial Porin VDAC 1 Seems to Be Functional inRickettsial Cells (Victor V. Emelyanov).

5. Deciphering the relationships between Rickettsia conoriiconorii and Rhipicephalus sanguineus in the ecology andepidemiology of Mediterranean spotted fever (Philippe Parola,Cristina Socolovschi, and Didier Raoult).

6. Intracellular life of Coxiella burnetii in macrophages: Anupdate (Eric Ghigo, Lionel Pretat, Christian Capo, DidierRaoult, and Jean-Louis Mege).

7. Glycomics and Proteomics in Detection and Functional Analysisof Coxiella burnetii (Rudol Toman, Ludovit Skultety, and RobertIhnatko).

8. Q Fever during Pregnancy: A Cause of Poor Fetal And MaternalOutcome (Xavier Carcopino, Didier Raoult, Florence Bretelle,Léon Boubli, and Andreas Stein).

9. Q fever in dairy animals (Annie Rodolakis).

10. Advances in Rickettsia Pathogenicity (Premanand Balraj,Patricia Renesto, and Didier Raoult).

11. Type IV Secretion System of Anaplasma phagocytophilum andEhrlichia chaffeensis (Yasuko Rikihisa, Mingqun Lin, Hua Niu,and Zhihui Cheng).

12. Ixodes ovatus ehrlichia exhibits unique ultrastructuralcharacteristics in mammalian endothelial and tick-derived cells(Ulrike G. Munderloh, David J. Silverman, Katherine C.MacNamara, Gilbert G. Ahlstrand, Madhumouli Chatterjee, Gary M.Winslow).

13. Bartonella endocarditis: a pathology shared by animalreservoirs and patients (Bruno B. Chomel, R. W. Kasten, C.Williams, A.C. Wey, J. B. Henn4, R. Maggi, S. Carrasco J. Mazet,H.J. Boulouis, R. Maillard, E. B. Breitschwerdt)

14. Insights in Bartonella Host Specificity (MurielVayssier-Taussat, Danielle Le Rhun, Sarah Bonnet, and ViolaineCotté).

15. The science and fiction of emerging rickettsioses(Christopher D. Paddock).

16. Status of the "East side hypothesis" (transovarialinterference) twenty five years later (Sam R. TelfordIII).

17. Rickettsioses in Australia (Stephen Graves and JohnStenos).

18. Ecology of Rickettsia in South America (Marcelo B.Labruna).

19. Characterization of rickettsial diseases in a hospital basedpopulation in central Tunisia (Naoufel Kaabia and AmelLetaief).

20. Epidemiology and Clinical Aspects of Rickettsioses inThailand (Y. Suputtamongkol, C. Suttinont, K. Niwatayakul, S.Hoontrakul, R. Limpaiboon, W.Chierakul, K. Losuwanaluk, And W.Saisongkork).