Posters MONDAY 20th

P-86
TRANSMISSION OF RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE BAR29 IN RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS (ACARI: IXODIDAE).
K. Matsumoto*, P. Brouqui, D. Raoult and P. Parola

P-87
EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION MODELS OF RHIPICEPHALUS TICKS WITH RICKETTSIA CONORII.
K. Matsumoto*, P. Brouqui, D. Raoult and P. Parola

P-88
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE PREVALENCE OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM, RICKETTSIA SP AND BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO DNA IN QUESTING IXODES RICINUS TICKS FROM FRANCE. Lénaïg Halos*; Gwenaël Vourc'h; Violaine Cotte, Maria Mavris; Jacques Barnouin; Henri-Jean Boulous; Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

P-89
A SPANISH NETWORK ON TICK-BORNE BACTERIAL DISEASES AND RELATED DISORDERS: EBATRAG.
P. Anda*; A. Encinas; A.L. García-Pérez; J.I. Herrero; S. Olmeda; J.A. Oteo; J. Portu, and the members of the "Red EBATRAG"

P-90
TICKS SPECIES PRESENT IN LA RIOJA: STUDY IN VEGETATION, MICRO MAMMALS AND OTHER ANIMALS.
S. Jiménez *; A. Pérez, A. Portillo, S. Santibáñez, L. Pérez-Martínez, J.A. Oteo

P-91
PREVALENCE OF TICK-BORNE ZOONOTIC BACTERIA IN SMALL MAMMALS CAPTURED IN NORTHERN SPAIN.
J.F. Barandika, A. Hurtado, B. Oporto, H. Gil, P. Anda, R.   Escudero, M. Barral, I. Povedano, A.L. García-Pérez*

P-92
PREVALENCE OF SFG RICKETTSIA SPECIES DETECTED IN TICKS IN LA RIOJA, SPAIN.
J.A. Oteo*, A. Portillo, S. Santibáñez, L. Pérez-Martínez, J.R. Blanco, S. Jiménez, V. Ibarra, A. Pérez-Palacios, M. Sanz

P-93
PREVALENCE OF RICKETTSIA SLOVACA IN DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS TICKS REMOVED FROM GAME PIGS (SUS SCROFA) IN NORTHEASTERN SPAIN.
A. Ortuño*, M. Quesada, S. López, J. Miret, N. Cardeñosa, J. Castellà, E. Anton, F. Segura

P-94
DEBONEL/TIBOLA: IS RICKETTSIA SLOVACA THE ONLY ETIOLOGICAL AGENT?.
V. Ibarra*, A. Portillo, S. Santibañez, J.R. Blanco, L. Pérez-Martínez, F. Márquez and J.A. Oteo

P-95
EVALUATION OF IGG ANTIBODIES RESPONSE AGAINST RICKETTSIA CONORII AND RICKETTSIA SLOVACA IN PATIENTS WITH DEBONEL/TIBOLA.
S. Santibáñez*, V. Ibarra, A. Portillo, J.R. Blanco, V. Martínez de Artola, A. Guerrero, J.A. Oteo

P-96
EFFECT OF THE ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH DEBONEL/TIBOLA.
V. Ibarra*, J.R. Blanco, A. Portillo, S. Santibáñez, L. Metola, J.A. Oteo

P-97
PREVALENCE DATA OF RICKETTSIA SLOVACA AND OTHER SFG RICKETTSIAE SPECIES IN DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS IN SOUTHEASTERN OF IBERIAN PENINSULA.
F.J. Márquez, J. Cantalejo, A. Rojas, V. Ibarra, A. Cantero, J. Rojas, J.A. Oteo, M.A. Muniain

P-98
LOW RISK OF DEVELOPING HUMAN RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII INFECTION IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN.
J.A. Oteo*, A. Portillo, J.R. Blanco, V. Ibarra, L. Pérez-Martínez, C. Izco, A. Pérez-Palacios, S. Jiménez

P-99
SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE IN TICKS FEEDING ON HUMANS IN NORTHWESTERN SPAIN. IS RICKETTSIA CONORII VANISHING?.
P. Fernández-Soto*, R. Pérez-Sánchez, R. Álamo-Sanz and A. Encinas Grandes

P-100
EFFICACY OF FOUR ANTI-TICK CHEMICALS TO BREAK THE TRANSMISSION OF RICKETTSIA CONORII TO DOGS.
Agustín Estrada-Peña*, José M. Venzal Bianchi

P-101
TICKS AND TICK-BORNE RICKETTSIAE SURVEILLANCE IN MONTESINHO NATURAL PARK -PORTUGAL.
M. Santos-Silva, R. Sousa, A.S. Santos, D. Lopes, E. Queijo, A. Doreta, L. Vitorino, F. Bacellar*

P-102
RICKETTSIOSIS IN SOUTHERN PORTUGAL: A 1-YEAR HOSPITAL-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY.
Tiago Tribolet de Abreu, Rita Sousa*, Carla Pinto, Sofia Núncio, Didier Raoult, Fátima Bacellar

P-103
RICKETTSIA SPP. IN IXODES RICINUS TICKS IN SOUTH-EAST BAVARIA". Roman Wölfel*, Rahime Terzioglu, Sandra Essbauer, Martin Pfeffer, Gerhard Dobler Bundeswehr

P-104
THE OCCURRENCE OF SPOTTED FEVER GROUP (SFG) RICKETTSIAE IN IXODES RICINUS TICKS (ACARI; IXODIDAE) IN NORTHERN POLAND.

P-105
THE OCCURRENCE OF SPOTTED FEVER GROUP (SFG) RICKETTSIAE IN DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS (ACARI; IXODIDAE) IN NORTH-EASTERN POLAND.


P-106
CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF RICKETTSIAL DISEASES IN ITALY.
Lorenzo Ciceroni*, Antonella Pinto, Simonetta Ciarrocchi, Alessandra Ciervo

P-107
MOLECULAR SURVEY OF EHRLICHIA CANIS, ANAPLASMA PHAGOCITOPHYLUM AND RICKETTSIA SPP. FROM BLOOD OF DOGS LIVING IN ITALY.
L. Solano-Gallego*, L. Razia, M. Trotta, T. Furlanello, M. Caldin

P-108
NO SEROLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR RICKETTSIAL DISEASES AMONG DANISH ELITE ORIENTEERS.
Peter Schiellerup, Thomas Dyhr, Jean Marc Rolain, Marianne Christensen, Rasmus Damsgaard, Niels Fisker, Niels Frost Andersen, Didier Raoult and Karen A. Krogfelt

P-109
THE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS INSIDE CHSE-214 CELLS.
Marianne Bordevik*, Marit Rode and Anne Aas-Eng

P-110
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER IN THE UNITED STATES, 1997 - 2002. A.S. Chapman*, S.M. Murphy, L.J. Demma, R.C. Holman, A.T. Curns, J.H. McQuiston, J.W. Krebs, D.L. Swerdlow

P-111
A RICKETTSIAL MIXED INFECTION IN A DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS TICK FROM OHIO.
Jennifer R. Carmichael* and Paul A. Fuerst

P-112
NOVEL SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE (SFGR) INFECTING AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM TICKS IN OHIO, USA.
Daryl Kelly*, Jennifer Carmichael, Gregory Booton and Paul Fuerst

P-113
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII INFECTING DOGS AND PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Linda Kidd1*, Barbara Hegarty, Daniel Sexton, and Edward Breitschwerdt

P-114
AN OUTBREAK OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER ASSOCIATED WITH A NOVEL TICK VECTOR, RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS, ON AN AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATION - ARIZONA, 2004.
Linda J. Demma*, M. Eremeeva, W. Nicholson, M. Traeger, D. Blau, C. Paddock, M. Levin, G. A. Dasch, J. Cheek, D. Swerdlow, J. McQuiston

P-115
MOLECULAR TYPING OF RICKETTSII RICKETTSII STRAINS FROM ARIZONA.
M.E. Eremeeva*, E. Bosserman, M. Zambrano, L. Demma, and G.A. Dasch

P-116
SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAL INFECTION IN DOGS FROM EASTERN ARIZONA: HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN THERE?.
William L. Nicholson*, Rondeen Gordon, and Linda Demma

P-117
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER IN ARIZONA: DOCUMENTATION OF HEAVY ENVIRONMENTAL INFESTATIONS OF RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS AT AN ENDEMIC SITE.
William L. Nicholson*, Christopher D. Paddock, Linda Demma, Marc Traeger, Brian Johnson, Jeffrey Dickson, Jennifer McQuiston, and David Swerdlow

P-118
GROWTH OF RICKETTSIA AKARI AND OTHER SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE IN A CONTINUOUS ENDOTHELIAL CELL LINE.
William L. Nicholson* and Iram Chaudhary

P-119
RICKETTSIA FELIS IN THE AMERICAS.
M.A.M Galvao, J.E. Zavala-Velazquez, C.L Mafra, D.H. Walker

P-121
EVIDENCE OF INFECTION IN HUMANS WITH RICKETTSIA TYPHI AND RICKETTSIA FELIS IN CATALONIA, NORTHEAST OF SPAIN.
M. Mercedes Nogueras*, Neus Cardeñosa, Isabel Sanfeliu, Tomás Muñoz, Bernat Font, Ferran Segura

P-122
INCIDENCE AND DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF RICKETTSIA FELIS IN PERIDOMESTIC FLEAS IN ANDALUSIA.
F.J. Márquez*, M.A. Muniain, J.J. Rodríguez-Liebana, M. Bernabeu-Wittel, A. Hidalgo-Pontiveros, J. Pachón

P-123
MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF FLEA-TRANSMITTED RICKETTSIA FELIS-LIKE BACTERIA IN HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA TICKS COLLECTED FROM DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN SOUTHERN CROATIA.
Darja Duh1*, Volga Punda-Polic, Miroslav Petrovec, Tomi Trilar, Nikola Bradaric, Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc

P-124
RICKETTSIA FELIS INFECTIONS ADQUIRED IN TUNISIA.
Abir Znazen, Jean-Marc Rolain, Nader Hammami, Adnane Hammami, Ben Jemaa Mounir and Didier Raoult*

P-125
PRELIMINARY TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SPOT GENE FAMILY AND OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS IN RICKETTSIA CONORII AND RICKETTSIA FELIS.
Clarisse Rovery*, My van La, Sylvianne Robineau, Nicolas Crapoulet, Koutaro Matsumoto, Philippe Parola, Hiroyuki Ogata, Patricia Renesto and Didier Raoult

P-126
ANALYSIS OF RICKETTSIA FELIS GENOME REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF A PATATIN-LIKE PROTEIN WITH CONSERVED PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 ACTIVE SITES.
Patricia Renesto*, Guillaume Blanc2 and Didier Raoult

P-127
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL HOST CELL RECEPTOR, KU70, INVOLVED IN THE ENTRY OF RICKETTSIA CONORII INTO MAMMALIAN CELLS.
Juan J. Martinez* and Pascale Cossart

P-128
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN HOST CELL SIGNALLING FOLLOWING INFECTION WITH DIFFERENT RICKETTSIA SPECIES.
Elena Rydkina*, David J. Silverman, and Sanjeev K. Sahni

P-129
ANALYSIS OF CELLULAR FATTY ACIDS IN RICKETTSIAE.
Soo Kyoung Shim*, Yong Kook Shin, Eun Na Choi, Kyu Jam Hwang, Young Sill Choi, Sang Hee Park, Byung Chul Lee, Kwon Sang Yoon, and Mi Yeoun Park

P-130
TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF ISOLATION OF RICKETTSIA SPP. FROM BLOOD SAMPLES USING THE SHELL VIAL CELL CULTURE ASSAY.
M. Quesada, I. Sanfeliu*, N. Cardeñosa, F. Segura

P-131
FULLY AUTOMATED METHOD BASED IN VNTR ANALYSIS FOR RICKETTSIA GENOTYPING.
Liliana Vitorino* Rita de Sousa, Fatima Bacellar and Líbia Zé-Zé

P-132
A REAL-TIME PCR FOR THE DETECTION OF SPOTTED FEVER AND TYPHUS GROUP RICKETTSIAE.
John Stenos, Nathan Unsworth* and Stephen Graves

P-133
STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF LYPOPOLYSACCHARIDE FROM RICKETTSIA TYPHI, THE CAUSATIVE AGENT OF ENDEMIC TYPHUS.
R. Toman*, M. Fodorová, , K. Slabá, and

P-134
USING WEIGL METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IMMUNOBIOLOGYCAL REMEDIES FOR THE TYPHUS AND TRENCH FEVER DIAGNOSTICS.
I. Kurhanova*, E. Lesnyy, M. Kitzara, B. Kozytskyy

P-135
PHYSIOPATHOLOGY OF RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII INFECTION: IN VIVO AND IN VITRO STUDY.
Y. Bechah*, D. Raoult and J.L. Mege

P-136
COMPARATIVE PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII USING LC-MS.
C.C. Chao*, D. Chelius, T. Zhang, E. Mutumanje and W.M. Ching

P-137
VALIDATION OF A RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII-SPECIFIC QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR CASSETTE AND DNA EXTRACTION PROTOCOLS USING EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED LICE.
Linda Houhamdi1*, Ju Jiang, Didier Raoult, Allen L. Richards, Patrick J. Rozmajzl

P-139
MONITORING OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS FOR PRESENCE OF VARIOUS RICKETTSIAE BY SEROLOGICAL METHODS.
, Z. Sekeyová, M.R. Bhide, S. Mardzinová, J. Curlik,

P-140
EXPRESSION OF ROMPA PROTEIN IN THE SYMBIOTIC RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE DURING RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS LIFE CYCLE.
Motohiko Ogawa*, Philippe Brouqui, Kohtaro Matsumoto and Didier Raoult

P-141
RICKETTSIA CONORII PROTEOME ANALYSIS BY 2DE-MS: A STEP TOWARD FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF R. CONORII GENOME.
Patricia Renesto*, Saïd Azza, Alain Dolla, Patrick Fourquet, Guy Vestris, Jean-Pierre Gorvel and Didier Raoult

P-142
SCA2, A PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED PARALOG FROM AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN-ENCODING GENES IN RICKETTSIA SPECIES.
Maxime Ngwamidiba, Guillaume Blanc, Hiroyuki Ogata, Didier Raoult and Pierre-Edouard Fournier*

P-143
EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF RICKETTSIOSES BY ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE (ECL).
Gary Wen, Jere McBride, Xiaofeng Zhang and Juan P. Olano*

P-144
A MOLECULAR METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF RICKETTSIA SPECIES IN CLINICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES.
I. Jado*, R. Escudero, A. Portillo, J.F. Barandika, F.J. Márquez, A. Pérez, I. Rodríguez-Moreno, J.A. Oteo, A. García-Pérez, S. Jiménez, V. Ibarra, M.I. Jiménez-Alonso, P. Anda

P-145
CAT SCRATCH DISEASE. AN ATYPICAL CLINICAL PRESENTATION. Fernández Rodrigo*, J.R. Agüera, E. Caballero E, I. Calicó, C. Juste

P-146
OCCURENCE OF BARTONELLA HENSELAE AMONG HUMAN IMMUNODIFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENTS.
M. Pape*, P. Kollaras, K. Mandraveli, A. Tsona, S. Metallidis, P. Nikolaidis, S. Alexiou-Daniel

P-147
BACILLARY ANGIOMATOSIS CAUSED BY BARTONELLA QUINTANA.
M. Sala*, B. Font, I. Sanfeliu, M. Quesada, I. Ponts, F. Segura

P-148
MOLECULAR SCREENING OF BARTONELLA SPECIES IN RODENTS FROM RUSSIAN FAR EAST.
Oleg Mediannikov*, Leonid Ivanov, Nina Zdanovskaya, Nelya Vysochina, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Irina Tarasevich, and Didier Raoult

P-149
CHARACTERISATION OF MECHANISM OF INDUCING LONG-TERM BACTERAEMIA IN MICE BY BARTONELLA BIRTLESII.
Maria Mavrisi, Jolanta Vanagel; Henri Saenz; Christoph Dehio; Henri-Jean Boulous; Muriel Vayssier-Taussat*

P-150
STANDARDIZED CORPUSCULAR ANTIGENIC MICROARRAY: THE BLOOD CULTURE NEGATIVE ENDOCARDITIS SERODIAGNOSIS PARADIGM. Laurent Samson*, Michel Drancourt, Jean-Paul Casalta, Didier Raoult

P-151
A MOLECULAR METHOD FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BARTONELLA SPECIES IN CLINICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES.
C. García-Esteban1*, R. Escudero, J.F. Barandika, E. Chaparro, I. Rodríguez-Moreno, A. García-Pérez, J.A. Oteo, J.R. Blanco, J.M. Eiros, P. Anda

P-152
DETECTION OF BARTONELLA SPECIES FROM TICKS AND SMALL MAMMALS IN KOREA.
Chul-Min Kim, Ying-Hua Yi, Mae-Rim Cho, Devendra H. Shah, Terry A. Klein, Heung-Chul Kim, Jin-Won Song, Sung-Tae Chong, Monica L. O'Guinn, John S. Lee, Jin-Ho Park, and Joon-Seok Chae*

P-153
DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF THE BARTONELLA QUINTANA HBP MULTI-GENE FAMILY IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND IDENTIFICATION OF A POTENTIALLY NOVEL REGULATORY ELEMENT. James M. Battisti, Kate N. Sappington and Michael F. Minnick*

P-154
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF REARING HUMAN BODY LICE FOR RESEARCH; ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL AND ANIMAL MODELS OF CULTIVATION.
James M. Battisti, Graham P. Knapp & Michael F. Minnick*

P-155
LICE INFESTATION AND LICE CONTROL REMEDIES IN UKRAINE.
I. Kurhanova