Posters TUESDAY 21th

P-156
BOUTONNEUSE FEVER AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY.
Rita Sousa*, Teresa Luz, Paulo Parreira, Elsa Casimiro, Fatima Bacellar

P-157
RICKETTSIOSES-BIOTERRORISM-URGENT PROPHYLAXIS.
E. Alexandrov*, D. Alexandrova, B. Kamarinchev, T. Kantardjiev, M. Teocharova, P. Propper, A. Macela

P-158
ANALYSIS SITUATIONAL OF THE CAPACITY OF DIAGNOSIS LABORATORIAL OF THE NATIONAL LABORATORIAL RICKETTSIOSIS NET IN BRAZIL.
Denise Macedo Mancini and Maria Cândida de Souza Dantas.

P-159
OLD AND NEW HUMAN RICKETTSIOSIS IN MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL. S.B. Calic*,C.M.   Barcellos-Rocha, C.L. Mafra, M.A.M. Galvão

P-160
BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER CASE-SERIES FROM SOUTH-EASTERN BRAZIL. I EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
R.N. Angerami, M.R. Resende, S.B. Stuchi Raquel, G. Katz, E. Nascimento, L.J. Silva*

P-161
BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER CASE-SERIES FROM SOUTH-EASTERN BRAZIL. I CLINICAL AND LABORATORY ASPECTS.
R.N. Angerami, M.R. Resende, S.B. Stuchi Raquel, G. Katz, E.M.M. Nascimento, L.J. Silva*

P-162
REVISITING BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER FOCUS OF CARATINGA, MINAS GERAIS STATE.
M.A.M. Galvão; L.D. Cardoso; C.L. Mafra; D.H. Walker

P-163
FATAL BRAZILIAN SPOTTED FEVER CONFIRMED BY IHC, PCR/RFLP AND SEQUENCING METHODS.
Tatiana Rozental*, Marina E. Eremeeva, Christopher D. Paddock, Sherif R. Zaki, Gregory A. Dasch, Elba R. S. Lemos

P-164
DETECTION OF RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII AND RICKETTSIA SP. IN 24 PATIENT BLOOD CLOTS FROM DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES OF THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO/BRAZIL.
F.S. Gehrke1*, E.M.M. Nascimento; E.R. Souza; S. Colombo, L.J. Silva, T.T.S. Schumaker

P-165
NATURAL INFECTION, TRANSOVARIAL TRANSMISSION, AND TRANSSTADIAL SURVIVAL OF RICKETTSIA BELLII IN THE TICK IXODES LORICATUS (ACARI: IXODIDAE) FROM BRAZIL.
Mauricio C. Horta*, Daniela P. Chiebao, Patrícia M. Ohara, Daniele B. de Souza, Fernando Ferreira, Sônia R. Pinheiro, Marcelo B. Labruna, Teresinha T.S. Schumaker

P-166
RICKETTSIA INFECTION IN OPOSSUMS (DIDELPHIS SPP) IN SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL.
Maurício C. Horta*, Adriano Pinter, Celso E. Souza, Adriana M. Joppert, Lucia E.O. Yai, Marcelo B. Labruna, Teresinha T.S. Schumaker

P-167
PREVALENCE OF RICKETTSIA INFECTION IN DOGS FROM THE URBAN AND RURAL AREAS OF MONTE NEGRO MUNICIPALITY, WESTERN AMAZON, BRAZIL.
Marcelo B. Labruna*, Daniel M. Aguiar, Guacyara T. Cavalcante, Adriano Pinter, Solange M. Gennari and Luis Marcelo A. Camargo

P-168
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER IN COLOMBIA: A FORGOTTEN DISEASE STRIKES AGAIN.
Gustavo Valbuena*, Juan Olano, Donald Bouyer, and David Walker

P-169
LABORATORY CONFIRMED MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED FEVER IN A JAPANESE TRAVELER TO KENYA.
Hiroko Yoshikawa, Mikio Kimura, Motohiko Ogawa, Jean Marc Rolain, Didier Raoult

P-170
POPULATION SURVEY OF EGYPTIAN ARTHROPODS FOR RICKETTSIAL AGENTS.
A.D. Loftis*, D.E. Szumlas, W.K. Reeves, M. Abassy, J.R. Moriarity, G.A. Dasch

P-171
MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED FEVER (MSF) IN TUNISIA.
Ahmed Ghoubontini

P-172
PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF RICKETTSIOSES IN THE TRAKYA (EUROPEAN) REGION OF TURKEY AND ATYPIC PRESENTATIONS OF R. CONORII.
F. Kuloglu*, J. M. Rolain, B. Aydoslu, F. Akata, M. Tugrul, D. Raoult

P-173
SEROLOGIC STUDY OF RICKETTSIOSIS AMONG ACUTE FEBRILE PATIENTS IN CENTRAL TUNISIA.
N. Kaabia*, J.M. Rolain, C. Hachani, M. Khalifa, F. Bahri, D. Raoult, A. Letaïef

P-174
FIRST MOLECULAR DETECTION OF RICKETTSIA CONORII, R. AESCHLIMANNII AND R. MASSILIAE IN TICKS FROM ALGERIA.
I. Bitam I, P. Parola*, K. Matsumoto, J.M. Rolain, B. Baziz, M. Belkaid and D. Raoult

P-175
EMERGENCE OF MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED FEVER (MSF) IN ORAN (ALGERIA).
N. Mouffok, F. Razik, A. Benabdella, N. Midoun, D. Belmadani, S. Abidi, R. Bellal, J.M. Rolain, H. Richet and D. Raoult

P-176
ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA - A SOFT TICK VECTOR FOR RICKETTSIA SPP. IN EAST AFRICA?.
Paul Browning; Alison Talbert and Sally Cutler*

P-177
DEET REPELLENTS AGAINST AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM (ACARI: IXODIDAE), THE PRINCIPAL VECTOR OF RICKETTSIA AFRICAE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Mogens Jensenius*, Anne-Marié Pretorius, Francoise Clarke and Bjørn Myrvang

P-178
SUB-ACUTE NEUROPATHY IN SIX PATIENTS WITH AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER.
Mogens Jensenius*, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Tormod Fladby, Tine Priø, Sirkka Vene, Didier Raoult and Bjørn Myrvang

P-179
MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF A COLLECTION OF SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE OBTAINED FROM PATIENTS AND TICKS FROM RUSSIA.
Stanislav Shpynov, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Nikolay Rudakov, Irina Samoilenko, Tatjana Reshetnikova, Vladimer Yastrebov, Matvey Schaiman, Irina Tarasevich, and Didier Raoult*

P-180
MULTI-SPACER TYPING AS A METHOD TO IDENTIFY RICKETTSIAL ISOLATES AT THE SPECIES AND STRAIN LEVELS, AND PROPOSAL TO CREATE SUBSPECIES WITHIN THE R. SIBIRICA SPECIES.
Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Yong Zhu, and Didier Raoult*

P-181
DETECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERA RICKETTSIA, ANAPLASMA AND EHRLICHIAE IN TICKS COLLECTED IN THE ASIATIC PART OF RUSSIA.
Stanislav Shpynov, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Nikolay Rudakov, Irina Tarasevich, and Didier Raoult*

P-182
GEOINFORMATION MAPPING OF TICK RICKETSIOSIS ZOONOSES IN ALTAI KRAI.
N.Yu.Kurepina*, A.S.Obert, N.V.Rudakov

P-183
RESULTS OF CLINIC-LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS IN THE REGION ENDEMIC ON TICK RICKETSIOSIS (SOUTH SIBERIA).
A.S. Obert*, S.A. Rudakova, N.V. Rudakov, E.V. Matushchenko

P-184
ANALYSIS OF THE IMMUNOPROTECTIVITY OF THE RECOMBINANT OMPA OF RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGII.
Yanmei Jiao, Bohai Wen*, Meiling Chen, Dongsheng Niu, Ling Qiu

P-185
METHODS OF ISOLATION AND CULTIVATION OF RICKETTSIAE OF "NEW GENOTYPES" FROM NOZOAREA OF THE NORTH ASIAN TICK TYPHUS IN SIBERIA.
I.E. Samoylenko*, L.V. Kumpan, S.N. Shpynov, A.S. Obert, O.V. Butakov, N.V. Rudakov

P-186
QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR ANALYSIS OF WHOLE BLOOD FROM FEBRILE PATIENTS IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL FOR EVIDENCE OF RICKETTSIAL INFECTION.
Patrick J. Rozmajzl, Christopher W. Woods, Ju Jiang, David R. Murdoch, Mark D. Zimmerman, Katie Henry, Jeff Clark, Allen L. Richards, L. Barth Reller

P-187
SCRUB TYPHUS AMONG SCANDINAVIAN TRAVELLERS TO SOUTH-EAST ASIA.
Sirkka Vene, Richard Montelius, Dag Berild, Mogens Jensenius

P-188
LEPTOSPIROSIS AND SCRUB TYPHUS: TWO MAJOR CAUSES OF ACUTE FEBRILE ILLNESSES IN RURAL THAILAND.
Chuanpit Suthinond1*, Kitti Losuwanaluk, Kanigar Niwatayakul, Siriwan Hoontrakul, Wanida Intaranongpai, Saowaluk Silpasakorn, Duangjai Suwancharoen, Pornpitak Panlar, Mongkol Chenchittikul, Yupin Suputtamongkol, Jean Marc Rolain, Didier Raoult

P-190
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SCRUB TYPHUS IN HIGH INCIDENCE AREA OF KOREA.
Man-Suck Park, Ok Park, Mi-Young Kim, Kwi-Hyang Kim, Sun-Mee Kim, Jung-Ae Ko, Jae-Kyung Park

P-191
DISTRIBUTION OF SEROTYPE AND GENOTYPE OF ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI IN KOREA.
Soo Kyoung Shim, Eun Na Choi, Byung Chul Lee, Seok Jong Suh, Kyu-Jam Hwang, Young Sill Choi, Sang-Hee Park, Yun-Tai Cha, Chi-Kyung In, Kwon Sang Yoon and Mi Yeoun Park

P-192
THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF SCRUB TYPHUS IN SPRING IN PINGTAN ISLAND OF FUJIAN PROVINCE.
Hengbin Guo*, Cao Min, Pan Xiuzhen, Tang Jiaqi

P-193
ISOLATION OF ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF IT'S 56KD PROTEIN GENE ON PINGTAN ISLAND IN SPRING.
Tang Jiaqi*, Guo Hengbin and Cao Min

P-194
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF A GROUP OF PROTEINS CONTAINING ANKYRIN REPEATS IN ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI.
Nam-Hyuk Cho*, Jo-Min Kim, Eun-Kyung Kwon, Se-Yoon Kim, Seung-Hoon Han, Hyuk Chu, Jeong-Hee Lee, Myung-Sik Choi and Ik-Sang Kim

P-195
COMPARISON OF IMMUNE RESPONSE AGAINST ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI, A PATHOGEN OF SCRUB TYPHUS, IN 4-WEEK-OLD AND 10-WEEK-OLD SCRUB TYPHUS-INFECTED LABORATORY MICE USING ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY (ELISA) TECHNIQUE. Kriangkrai Lerdthusnee*, Supak Jenkitkasemwongb, Sucheera Insuana, Warisa Leepitakrat, Taweesak Monkannaa, Nittaya Khlaimanee, Weerayut Chareonsongsermkij, Surachai Leepitakrat and James W. Jones

P-196
FIBRONECTIN MEDIATES THE INTERNALIZATION OF THE ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI INTO EUKARYOTIC CELLS BY BINDING WITH 56-KDA PROTEIN.
Ik-sang Kim* and Jung-Hee Lee

P-197
ANALYSIS OF ENDOCYTOSIS PATHWAY AND ENDOSOMAL ESCAPE MECHANISMS OF ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI IN NONPROFESSIONAL PHAGOCYTIC CELLS.
Hyuk Chu*, Jung-Hee Lee, Seung-Hoon Han, Se-Yoon Kim, Nam-Hyuk Cho, Ik-Sang Kim, Myung-Sik Choi

P-198
STUDIES ON DETECTION AND TYPE IDENTIFICATION OF ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI IN A SINGLE LARVAL MITE OF L. SCUTELLARE BY POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION.
Tao Kaihua*, Guo Hengbin, Cao Min and Tang Jiaqi

P-199
MURINE SPLEEN CELL CYTOKINE RESPONSE FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL IMMUNIZATION WITH THE SCRUB TYPHUS VACCINE CANDIDATE: KP 47DNA.
S. Chattopadhyay, G. Xu, J. Jiang, T.C. Chan, C.C. Chao, W.M. Ching, A.L. Richards*

P-200
DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF A SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIA IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Helen Owen*, Nathan Unsworth, John Stenos, Phillip Clark, Stephen Graves and Stan Fenwick

P-201
PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN SPOTTED FEVER - CLINICAL & EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES.
B.J. Hudson*, A. Hofmeyr, E. Williams, K. Mitsakos, N. Fisher, V. Lennox, G. McDougall

P-202
CONCENTRATION OF PROCALCITONIN AND C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN PATIENTS WITH HUMAN ANAPLASMOSIS AND THE INITIAL PHASE OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS.
S. Lotric(Furlan*, T. Rojko, F. Strle

P-203
RICKETTSIA SIDE EFFECTS ON A SEXUAL PARTNER AND ERADICATION OF RICKETTSIA IN THE INFECTED PERSON.
Maurita C McKay*, Frank Parsons

P-204
CHARACTERIZATION OF DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS MOLECULES ASSOCIATED WITH RICKETTSIAL INFECTION.
Kevin R. Macaluso* and Abdu F. Azad

P-205
SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF RICKETTSIAL DISEASES, EVALUATION OF TWO APPROACHES.
J.H.J. Reimerink*, J. Bakker, M.M.P.T. Herremans, D. Raoult, M.P.G. Koopmans

P-206
MEDITERRANEAN SPOTTED FEVER IN CRETE GREECE. CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTIC DATA OF 15 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS.
A. Germanakis, A. Psaroulaki*, A. Gikas, Y. Tselentis

P-207
DETECTION, ISOLATION AND MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE DERIVED FROM PATIENTS' SPECIMENS IN CRETE GREECE.
A. Psaroulaki*, A. Germanakis, E. Scoulica, B. Papadopoulos, A. Gikas, Y. Tselentis

P-208
TICKS AND TICK-BORNE RICKETTSIAE IN THE GREEK ISLAND OF CEPHALONIA.
A. Psaroulaki*, D. Ragiadakou,   G. Kouris, B. Papadopoulos, B. Chaniotis, Y. Tselentis

P-209
RODENT SURVEILLANCE FOR ZOONOSES IN CYPRUS, AN ISLAND ECOSYSTEM.
A. Psaroulaki1*, M. Antoniou, G. Ioannou, P. Toumazos, F. Loukaides, Y. Tselentis

P-210
LOW INCIDENCE OF TICK-BORNE RICKETTSIOSIS IN A SPANISH MEDITERRANEAN AREA.
F. Gimeno, J. Colomina, M. Molina, J.A. Oteo, M. Cuenca and A. Guerrero

P-211
SEASONAL ACTIVITY OF TICKS AND TICK-BORNE PATHOGENS IN CENTRAL SPAIN.
A.S. Olmeda, A. Toledo, M.A. Casado-Nistal, F. Valcárcel, C. García Esteban, I. Jado, R. Escudero, P. Anda

P-212
GENETIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE AVIRULENT AND VIRULENT STRAINS OF RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII.
Jian-zhi Zhng, Jun-fang Hao, David H. Walker, and Xue-jie Yu*