SATURDAY JUNE 18th
8:30–18:00
REGISTRATION
9:30–12:00
THE USE OF RICKETTSIAE AS AGENTS OF BIOTERRORISM

Convener: Herbert A. THOMPSON (USA) & Karim HECHEMY (USA)

Supported by NIH

9:30–10:00
Rickettsiae as Natural and Bioterrorism Threats to Public Health. Gregory Dasch (USA)
10:00-10:30
Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of Coxiella burnetii species: Insights into Pathogenesis and Evolution and Implications for Biodefense. Rekha Seshadri (USA)
10:30–11:00
The Bioterrorism Detection and Response Paradigm in the United States, with Emphasis on the Rickettsias. Herbert A. Thompson (USA)
11:00–11:30
Attack Scenarios with Rickettsial species, and Implications for Response and Management. Georgios Pappas (Greece)
11:30–12:00
PathoSystem Resource Integration for Rickettsia spp. and Coxiella burnetii Oswald CRASTA (USA)

12:15–13:15
WELCOME AND OPENING CEREMONY
13:15–14:45
COCKTAIL-LUNCH
15:00–17:00
GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC
Convener: Guy PALMER (USA) & Abdu AZAD (USA)

15:00–15:20
Progress in Rickettsial Genome Analysis from Pioneering of Rickettsia prowazekii to the Recent Rickettsia typhi David WALKER (USA)
15:20–15:40
Rickettsia felis genome Didier RAOULT (France)
15:40–16:00
Dissecting the Rickettsia prowazekii Genome David WOOD (USA)
16:00–16:20
Rickettsia peacockii transposon, ISRpe1 & disruption of the rickA and sca1
Abdu AZAD (USA)
16:20–16:40
Comparative genomics of three human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis agents Yasuko RIKIHISA (USA)
16:40–17:00
New perspectives on Rickettsial Evolution from the Genome Sequences of Additional Species of Rickettsia and of Orientia tsutsugamushi. Marina E. EREMEEVA & Gregory A. DASCH (USA)
17:00–18:00
STATE-OF THE ART:
How to name a rickettsia and a rickettsial disease.
Prof. Didier RAOULT (France)

SUNDAY JUNE 19th
08:00–08:30
EHRLICHIA AND ANAPLASMA INFECTION
Stephen DUMLER (USA)
08:30–11:00
SLIDE SESSION 1
Conveners: Guy PALMER (USA) & Miro PETROVEC (Slovenia)
08:30–08:55
Use of comparative genomic to better understand Anaplasma and Ehrlichia infection Kelly BRAYTON (USA)
08:55–09:20
Combined genomic and proteomic approaches in Anaplasma vaccine development Wendy BROWN (USA)
09:20–09:45
Interactions of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, endothelial cells, and human neutrophils. Uli MUNDERLOH (USA)
09:45–10:10
Detection of a non-pathogenic variant of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus from La Rioja, Spain.   Aránzazu PORTILLO (Spain)
10:10–10:35
Proteomic approaches in understanding Ehrlichia pathogenesis Roman R. GANTA (USA)
10:35–11:00
Immunity and immunopathology during Ehrlichia infection Gary WINSLOW (USA)

11:00–11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30–13:30
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RICKETTSIAL DISEASES

Conveners: Philippe BROUQUI (France) &
Inokuma HISHASI (Japan)
11:30-11:45
Rickettsiosis in America Christopher PADDOCK (USA)
11:45-12:00
Rickettsiosis in Europe José R. BLANCO (Spain)
12:00–12:15
Rickettsiosis in North Africa Amel LETAIEF (Tunisia)
12:15–12:30
Rickettsiosis in Sub-Saharan Africa Philippe PAROLA (France)
12:30–12:45
Rickettsiosis in Russia Irina TARASEVICH (Russia)
12:45–13:00
Rickettsiosis in Japan and Far East Fumihiko MAHARA (Japan)
13:00–13:15
Rickettsiosis in Australia Stephen GRAVES (Australia)
13:30 – 15:00
LUNCH
15:00 – 15:30
COXIELLA BURNETII INFECTION
Jan KAZAR (Slovakia)

15:30 – 17:30
SLIDE SESSION 2
Conveners: James SAMUEL (USA) & Rudolf TOMAN (Slovakia)
15:30–15:45
Coxiella burnetii whole cell lysate proteins identification by MS and MS/MS techniques L. SKULTETY (Slovakia)
15.45–16:00
Coxiella burnetii Infection Perturbs Host Cell Cholesterol Homeostasis D. HOWE (USA)
16:00–16:15
Induction of protective immunity against Q fever with a recombinant antigen P1 fused with HspB of Coxiella burnetii Bohai WEN (China)
16:15–16:30
Immunization Experiments with Recombinant Coxiella burnetii Proteins in a Murine Infection Model Judith TYCZKA (Germany)
16:30–16:45
Structural and fuctional characterization of the glycan antigens involved in immunobiology of Q fever R. TOMAN (Slovakia)
16:45–17:00
Virulent Coxiella burnetii do not Activate Human Dendritic Cells: Role of Lipopolysaccharide as a Shielding Molecule Jeffrey G. SHANNON (USA)
17:00–17:15
The mechanisms of protective immunity induced by whole cell vaccine in Coxiella burnetii infection of BALB/c mice Guoquan ZHANG (USA)
17:30–18:00
COFFEE BREAK
18:00- 20:00
PATHOGENESIS OF RICKETTSIAL DISEASES
Convener: David WALKER (USA)
18:00-18:30
Mechanisms of host cell subversion by Anaplasma phagocytophilum Stephen DUMLER (USA)
18:30-19:00
Integrating molecular mechanisms of pathogen biology and field epidemiology to improve understanding of rickettsial transmission Guy PALMER (USA)
19:00–19:30
Balancing Protective Immunity and Immunopathology: A Unifying Model of Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis Nahed ISMAIL (USA)
19:30–20:00
Immunopathology of Q fever Jean-Louis MEGE (France)
08:30 – 18:00

NON STOP VISIT OF POSTERS

Posters SUNDAY 19th

P-1
DISTRIBUTION OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM AND "IXODES OVATUS" EHRLICHIA SP. IN IXODES RICINUS IN BRITTANY, FRANCE.
K. Matsumoto*, G. Joncour, P. Lamada, B. Caro, A. Le Dret, D. Raoult, and P. Brouqui

P-2
HIGHLY VARIABLE YEAR TO YEAR PREVALENCE OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IN IXODES RICINUS TICKS IN NORTHEASTERN POLAND. FOUR YEARS FOLLOW-UP.
Anna Grzeszczuk*,

P-3
ESTIMATION OF THE PREVALENCE OF TICK INFECTION BY MEMBERS OF ANAPLASMATACEAE FAMILY IN TUNISIA.
Youmna M'Ghirbi, Ali Bouattour* and Danièle Postic

P-4
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EHRLICHIA CANIS AND RELATED SPECIES INFECTION IN DOGS IN EASTERN SUDAN.
Hisashi Inokuma, Maremichi Oyamada, Bernard Davoust, Mickaël Boni, Jacques Dereure, Bruno Bucheton, Awad Hammad, Malaika Watanabe, Kazuhito Itamoto, Masaru Okuda, and Philippe Brouqui

P-5
SURVEYS ON SEROPREVALENCE OF CANINE MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS AMONG DOGS LIVING IN THE IVORY COAST AND GABON AND EVALUATION OF A QUICK COMMERCIAL TEST KIT DOT-ELISA.
Bernard Davoust*, Olivier Bourry, José Gomez, Laurent Lafay, Fanny Casali, Eric Leroy and Daniel Parzy

P-6
DETECTION OF EHRLICHIA SPP. INFECTING DOGS IN CAMEROON.
Lucy M. Ndip*, Roland N. Ndip, Seraphine N. Esemu, Veronica l. Dickmu, Eric B. Fokam, David H. Walker and Jere W. McBride

P-7
EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS IN DOGS WITH EHRLICHIA CANIS STRAIN BORGO 89.
Stéphanie Jouret-Gourjault, Daniel Parzy and Bernard Davoust*

P-8
RESERVOIR COMPETENCY OF GOATS FOR ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM.
Robert F. Massung*, Michael L. Levin, Nathan J. Miller, and Thomas N. Mather

P-9
AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY ON ANAPLASMA INFECTION IN CATTLE, SHEEP AND GOATS IN MASHHAD SUBURB, KHORASAN PROVINCE, IRAN. G.R. Razmi*, K. Dastjerdi, H. Hossieni, A. Naghibi, M.R. Aslani

P-10
ISOLATION OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM STRAIN AP-VARIANT 1 IN A TICK-DERIVED CELL LINE.
Robert F. Massung*, Michael L. Levin, Ulrike G. Munderloh, David J. Silverman, Meghan J. Lynch, and Timothy J. Kurtti

P-12
UNIDIRECTIONAL SUPPRESSION OF GENOTYPES IN ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM INFECTED LAMBS.
S. Stuen*, H. Dahl, K. Bergström, T. Moum

P-13
MECHANISMS OF IMMUNOLOGICAL CONTROL OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IN MICE.
Friederike D. von Loewenich*, Yvonne Kern, Christina Rinkler, and Christian Bogdan

P-14
CHANGES IN FERRITIN EXPRESSION ASSOCIATED WITH ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM INFECTION.
Jason A. Carlyon*, Dara Ryan, Kristina Archer, and Erol Fikrig

P-15
P38 MAPK IS INVOLVED IN EARLY BUT NOT LATE NEUTROPHIL APOPTOSIS INHIBITION BY ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM.
K.S. Choi and J.S. Dumler*

P-16
PLATELET DYSFUNCTION AND ACTIVATION AFTER ASSOCIATION WITH ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IN VITRO.
D. L. Borjesson*, and R. Feferman

P-17
ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM-INFECTION REDUCES EXPRESSION OF PHAGOCYTOSIS-RELATED RECEPTORS ON NEUTROPHILS.
Justin W.A. Garyu*, J.S. Dumler

P-18
ANKA OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IS TRANSLOCATED INTO THE HOST CELL NUCLEUS AND BINDS PUTATIVE MATRIX-ATTACHMENT REGIONS OF THE GENOMIC DNA.
Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia*, Jinho Park, Ling Gao, Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu, J. Stephen Dumler

P-19
TRANSPOSON-BASED MUTAGENESIS OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM.
Jacob Ijdo*, Angel Mueller, Adam Carlson

P-20
CLEARANCE OF EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS IN MHCII-DEFICIENT MICE.
S.K. Chapes*, E. Miller, C. Cheng and R.R. Ganta

P-22
ANALYSIS OF EHRLICHIAL P28 GENE EXPRESSION IN A MURINE MODEL OF PERSISTENT INFECTION.
Patricia A. Crocquet-Valdes*, Jere W. McBride, Hui-min Feng, Nahed Ismail, Melissa A. Small, Xue-jie Yu and David H. Walker

P-23
TISSUE INJURY IN THE MURINE MODEL OF GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS RELATES TO HOST INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE AND NOT PATHOGEN LOAD.
Diana G. Scorpio*, J. Stephen Dumler, Christian Bogdan, and Friederike D. von Loewenich

P-24
HOST CELL-SPECIFIC PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM.
Milagros Postigo*, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Stuart Smith, Cornelis Bekker, Amar Taoufik, Ivan Morrison, Frans Jongejan

P-25
CYTOKINE RESPONSE IN EHRLICHIA CANIS-INFECTED DOGS.
Tomoko Tajima* and Yasuko Rikihisa

P-26
CYTOKINE GENE EXPRESSION BY PERIPHERAL BLOOD LEUKOCYTES IN DOGS EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED WITH EHRLICHIA CANIS.
Ahmet Unver, Haibin Huang   and Yasuko Rikihisa*

P-28
THE EHRLICHIA CANIS MAJOR IMMUNOREACTIVE GLYCOPROTEIN (GP200) CONTAINS FOUR MAJOR B CELL EPITOPES DEFINED BY CARBOHYDRATE AND PEPTIDE DETERMINANTS.
Kimberly A. Nethery*, C. Kuyler Doyle, Xiaofeng Zhang, and Jere W. McBride

P-29
DISCOVERY OF MAJOR IMMUNOREACTIVE GLYCOPROTEIN ORTHOLOGS OF EHRLICHIA CANIS AND E. CHAFFEENSIS.
C. Kuyler Doyle*, Kimberly A. Nethery, Vsevolod L. Popov, and Jere W. McBride

P-30
EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS AND GLYCOPROTEINS ELICIT MONOCYTE PRODUCTION OF INFLAMMATORY CHEMOKINES.
Jere W. McBride* and Xiaofeng Zhang

P-31
DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF MEMBERS OF THE ANAPLASMA MARGINALE MSP2 SUPERFAMILY.
Susan M. Noh*, Kelly A. Brayton, Donald P. Knowles, Jr., Guy H. Palmer

P-32
CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF 51 KDA ANTIGENIC PROTEIN OF NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII NR-JA1.
Myeong-Kyu Park, Eun-Ha Kim, Mae-Rim Cho, Ying-Hua Yi, Mi-Jin Lee, Devendra H. Shah, Jin-Ho Park, Bae-Keun Park and Joon-Seok Chae*

P-33
SEROPREVALENCE OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM AMONG FORESTRY WORKERS IN NORTHERN AND NORTH-EASTERN POLAND.
, A. Grzeszczuk*, W. Kruminis-Lozowska, M. Racewicz, B. Kubica-Biernat

P-34
SEROLOGICAL EVALUATION OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM INFECTION IN LIVESTOCK IN NORTHWESTERN SPAIN.
Inmaculada Amusategui, Ángel Sainz*, Miguel A. Tesouro

P-35
PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF INFECTION WITH ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM AMONG SLOVENE FORESTRY WORKERS DURING THE PERIOD OF TICK ACTIVITY.
Tereza Rojko*, T. Ursic, T. Avsic-Zupanc, M. Petrovec, F. Strle and S. Lotric-Furlan

P-36
ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM INFECTION IN CATTLE IN FRANCE.
K. Matsumoto, G. Joncour, B. Davoust, P.H. Pitel, A. Chauzy, E. Collin, H. Morvan, N. Vassallo, P. Brouqui*

P-37
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HUMAN AND BOVINE ANAPLASMOSIS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE.
Victoria Naranjo*, Francisco Ruiz-Fons, Ursula Hofle, Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, Diego Villanúa, Consuelo Almazán, Alessandra Torina, Santo Caracappa, Katherine M. Kocan, Christian Gortázar, José de la Fuente

P-38
UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS OF TRANSMISSION OF EHRLICHIA RUMINANTIUM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE STRUCTURE OF PATHOGENS POPULATIONS IN THE FIELD.
Nathalie Vachiéry*, Modestine Raliniaina, Frédéric Stachurski, Sophie Molia, Thierry Lefrançois and Dominique Martinez

P-41
HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS: THE FIRST SPANISH CASE CONFIRMED BY PCR.
J.C. García*, M.J. Núñez, B. Castro, F.J. Fraile, M.A. López, M.C. Mella, A. Blanco, E. Loureiro, C. Sieira, A. Portillo, J.A. Oteo

P-42
HUMAN EXPOSURE TO ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IN PORTUGAL. A.S. Santos*, F. Bacellar, J.S. Dumler

P-43
TWO HUMAN CASES OF HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS, CONFIRMED BY PCR, IN SARDINIA-ITALY.
S. Mastrandrea, M.S. Mura, S. Tola*, A. Tanda, R. Porcu, G. Masala

P-44
HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS (HGE) IN NORTH-EASTERN ITALY. A. Beltrame, M. Ruscio, A. Arzese, G. Rorato, C. Negri, A. Londero, M. Crapis, P. Viale

P-45
EHRLICHIA CANIS DETECTION IN SYMPTOMATIC HUMANS IN VENEZUELA. Miriam Perez*, Mairim Bodor, Chunbin Zhang, Yasuko Rikihisa

P-46
HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS AND HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS IN THE UNITED STATES, 2001- 2002. Linda J. Demma*, R.C. Holman, J.H. McQuiston, J. W. Krebs, D.L. Swerdlow

P-47
MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF EHRLICHIA AND ANAPLASMA PATHOGENS IN VERTEBRATE AND TICK HOSTS BY REAL-TIME RT-PCR. Kamesh R. Sirigireddy*, Donald C. Mock and Roman R. Ganta

P-48
REAL-TIME PCR IN NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EHRLICHIA CANIS INFECTION USING INVASIVELY AND NON-INVASIVELY OBTAINED SAMPLES. Gad Baneth*, Shimon Harrus, Frederic S. Ohnona, Yechiel Schlesinger

P-49
PROPHYLACTIC USE OF SUSTAINED-RELEASE DOXYCYCLINE BLOCKS TICK-TRANSMITTED INFECTION BY ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM IN A MURINE MODEL. Robert F. Massung*, Nordin S. Zeidner, Marc C. Dolan, Dawn Roellig, Elizabeth Gabitzsch, Danielle R. Troughton, and Michael L. Levin

14:00 - 19:00        EVENING SESSION

P-50
DETECTION OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM, COXIELLA BURNETII, RICKETTSIA SPP. AND BORRELIA BURGDORFERI S. L. IN TICKS, AND WILD-LIVING ANIMALS IN WESTERN AND MIDDLE SLOVAKIA.
K. Smetanová*, K. Schwarzová, E. Kocianová

P-51
ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON CHANGING OF Q-FEVER EPIDEMIOLOGY IN RUSSIA.
Nikolay Tokarevich*, Olga Freilikhman, Natalia Titova, Irina Zheltakova, Nina Rybakova, Evgeny Vorobeichikov

P-52
HUMAN COXIELLA BURNETII INFECTIONS IN PARTICULAR REGIONS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 2002.

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P-53
GIPUZKOA, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN (1984-2004), A HIPERENDEMIC AREA OF Q FEVER.
M. Montes*, G. Cilla, D. Vicente, M. Ercibengoa, E. Perez-Trallero

P-54
NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL FOCI OF THE MARSEILLE AND Q-FEVERS IN BULGARIA. E. Alexandrov*, N. Nedelchev, D. Alexandrova, S. Martinov, Z. Dimitrova, B. Kamarinchev

P-55
THE ROLE OF WIND IN THE OUTBREAK OF Q FEVER.
*, , , Ira Gjenero Margan, ,

P-56
EVALUATION OF LOW CONCENTRATION AEROSOL FOR INFECTING OF THE MAN BY Q FEVER PATHOGEN. Eugene Vorobeychikov1*, Ludmila Yakovleva, Alexander Vasilenko and Boris Nikolaev

P-57
PUBLIC-HEALTH PROBLEM OF ZOONOSES WITH EMPHASIS ON Q-FEVER. *, , ,

P-58
INCIDENCE OF OVINE ABORTION BY COXIELLA BURNETII IN NORTHERN SPAIN.
B. Oporto, J.F. Barandika, A. Hurtado, B. Moreno, G. Aduriz, A.L. García-Pérez*

P-59
DETECTION OF COXIELLA BURNETII IN MARKET CHICKEN EGGS AND MAYONNAISE.
Noriyuki Tatsumi*, Andreas Baumgartner, Ying Qiao, Ikkyu Yamamoto, Kazuo Yamaguchi

P-60
DEFECTIVE LEUCOCYTE TRANSENDOTHELIAL MIGRATION IN Q FEVER: ROLE OF IL-10.
S. Meghari*, D. Raoult and J.L. Mege

P-61
GENOME SEQUENCE OF TWO ENDOCARDITIS ISOLATES OF COXIELLA BURNETII.
P.A. Beare, S.F. Porcella, R. Seshardi, J.E. Samuel, and R.A. Heinzen*

P-62
TRANSCRIPTOME AND PROTEOME ANALYSIS OF COXIELLA BURNETII DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS.
S.A. Coleman*, P.A. Beare, S. F. Porcella, D. Sturdevant, D. Howe, E.R. Fischer, D.J. Meade, and R.A. Heinzen

P-63
FUR-REGULATED GENES IN COXIELLA BURNETII.
H.L. Briggs*, M.J. Wilson, R. Seshadri, and J.E. Samuel

P-64
C. BURNETII VIRULENCE IS ISOLATE GROUP SPECIFIC IN THE GUINEA PIG AEROSOL-CHALLENGE MODEL.
K.E. Russell-Lodrigue*, M.W.J. Poels, G.Q. Zhang, D.N. McMurray, J.E. Samuel

P-65
RECA IS ESSENTIAL FOR INTRACELLULAR SURVIVAL OF COXIELLA BURNETII.
K. Mertens*, L. Lantsheer and J. E. Samuel

P-66
COMPARATIVE VIRULENCE OF PHASE I AND II COXIELLA BURNETII IN IMMUNODEFICIENT MICE.
Masako Andoh*, Kasi Russel-Lodrigue, Guoquan Zhang, James Samuel

P-67
MOLECULAR AND BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL COXIELLA FROM CARIOS CAPENSIS.
Will K. Reeves*, Amanda D. Loftis, Rachael A. Priestley, William Wills, Felicia Sanders, Gregory A. Dasch

P-68
SEROTESTING OF HUMAN Q-FEVER PREVALENCE IN WIDER AREA OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
*, ,

P-69
ANALYSIS OF COXIELLA BURNETII FROM HUMANS AND RESERVOIRS IN SPAIN.
I. Jado*, M. Bolaños, A. García Pérez, M. Quevedo, A. Tellez, R. Escudero, A.M. Martín Sánchez, B. Oporto, C. García Amil, E. Santana Rodríguez, M. Rodríguez Vargas, P. Anda

P-70
Q-FEVER DURING PREGNANCY.
R. Komitova*, M. Teocharova, E. Aleksandrov

P-71
ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENOTYPING SCHEME FOR COXIELLA BURNETII. Sanela Svraka*, Rudolf Toman, Ludovit Skultety, Katarina Slaba, W.L. Homan

P-72
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COXIELLA BURNETII STRAINS AND ISOLATES USING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES.
Z. Sekeyová*,

P-73
GENOME PROFILING OF COXIELLA BURNETII BY DNA HYBRIDIZATION TO A CUSTOM HIGH DENSITY MICROARRAY.
P.A. Beare, J.E. Samuel, K. Virtaneva, S.F. Porcella, R.A. Heinzen

P-74
COMPARISON OF FOUR COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF IGM PHASE II ANTIBODIES TO COXIELLA BURNETII IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE Q FEVER.
Dimitrios Frangoulidis*, Elmar Schröpfer, Sascha Al Dahouk, Herbert Tomaso and Hermann Meyer

P-75
IDENTIFICATION, CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF POTENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS FOR Q FEVER.
C.C. Chao*, H.W. Chen, X. Li, W.B. Xu, B. Hanson, and W.M. Ching

P-77
DIAGNOSIS OF COXIELLA BURNETII PERICARDITIS BY USING A SYSTEMATIC PRESCRIPTION KIT IN CASE OF PERICARDIAL EFFUSION.
PY. Levy*, G. Habib, JL Bonnet, P. Djiane, D. Raoult

P-78
EVALUATION OF A REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY TO DETECT COXIELLA BURNETII.
S. Klee*, H. Ellerbrok, J. Tyczka, T. Franz and B. Appel

P-79
BALB/C MOUSE MODEL AND REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR EVALUATION OF THE IMMUNOPROTECTIVITY AGAINST Q FEVER.
Jingbo Zhang, Bohai Wen*, Meiling Chen, Wenjin Wei, and Dongsheng Niu

P-80
DIAGNOSIS OF Q FEVER INFECTION BY PCR ON SERA DURING A RECENT OUTBREAK IN RURAL SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Mark Turra*, Grace Chang, Daryn Whybrow, Geoff Higgins and Ming Qiao

P-81
Q FEVER PROPHYLAXIS, MARKERS OF PERSISTENT INFECTION & VARIATIONS IN IMMUNE FUNCTION GENES IN SUBJECTS WITH CHRONIC Q FEVER" EXIT SUMMARY 1981 - 2004.
Marmion B, Harris R*, Storm P, Helbig K, Penttila I & Semendric L & Q Fever Research Group Adelaide

P-82
IN VITRO SUSCEPTIBILITIES OF 13 NEW ISOLATES OF COXIELLA BURNETII TO ERYTHROMYCIN, TELITHROMYCIN, AND DOXYCYCLINE USING REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR.
J.M. Rolain, F. Lambert, and D. Raoult*

P-83
CORRELATION BETWEEN MIC TO DOXYCYCLINE AND TREATMENT OUTCOME IN Q FEVER ENDOCARDITIS.
J.M. Rolain, A. Boulos, M.N. Mallet, and D. Raoult*

P-84
Q FEVER PNEUMONIA TREATMENT.
M. Morovic

P-85
SENSITIVITY OF COXIELLA BURNETII TO DISINFECTANTS.
Barbara Tadeusiak, Stanislawa Tylewska-Wierzbanowska*

MONDAY JUNE 20th
08:00 – 08:30
RICKETTSIA INFECTION
Juan P. OLANO (USA)
08:30 – 11:00
SLIDE SESSION 3
Conveners: Tatjana AVSIC-ZUPANC (Slovenia) &
Gregory A. DASCH (USA)
08:30–08:45
Rickettsia marmionii and chronic disease Stephen GRAVES (Australia)
08:45–09.00
The presence of eschars in Portuguese patients infected with Israeli tick typhus strain of Rickettsia conorii Rita SOUSA (Portugal)
09:00–09:15
In vitro studies of microvascular permeability during Rickettsia rickettsii infections Juan P. OLANO (USA)
09:15–9:30
Upstream signaling mechanisms and possible roles for regulatory oxygenases in rickettsial pathogenesis Sanjeev SAHNI  (USA)
09:30–9:45
Growth of typhus group and and spotted fever group rickettsiae in insect cells Tsuneo UCHIYAMA (Japan)
09:45–10:00
Proteomic analysis of bacterial ligands involved in rickettsiae-host cell interaction Patricia RENESTO (France)
10:00–10:15 
Expression of the Rickettsia prowazekii gene pld and of tlyC in Salmonella results in transformants capable of escaping endosomal vacuoles into the host cell cytosol Ted WHITWORTH (USA)
10:15–10:30
The Rickettsia felis truncated gene ompA is actively expressed in infected fleas Jorge E. ZAVALA-CASTRO (México)
10:30-10:45
Molecular mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics in Rickettsia genus by genome comparison analysis J.M. ROLAIN (France)
10:45–11:00
Development of a multi-component DNA vaccine candidate against homologous challenge of Orientia tsutsugamushi W.M. CHING (USA)

11:30 – 12:00
COFFEE BREAK
12:00 – 13:40
CLINICAL ASPECTS AND DIAGNOSIS
Conveners: Pedro ANDA (Spain) & David SILVERMAN (USA)
12:00-12:20
Rickettsia slovaca infecion: Debonel/Tibola Valvanera IBARRA (Spain)
12:20-12:40
Arthropod-borne in homeless Philippe BROUQUI (France)
12:40–13:00
A new Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis: Rickettsia parkeri. Christopher PADDOCK (USA)
13:00–13:20
Clinical diagnosis and treatment of HGA. Johan BAKKEN (USA)
13:20–13:40 Immunohistochemical diagnosis of Japanese spotted fever Yutaka TSUTSUMI (Japan)
13:40 – 15:00
LUNCH
15:00 – 15:30
BARTONELLA INFECTION
R. BIRTLES (UK)
15:30 – 17:30
SLIDE SESSION 4
Conveners: Pierre-Edouard FOURNIER (France) &
Michael MINNICK (USA)
15:30–15:50
Isolation and characterization of new Bartonella species from field rodents in Taiwan Dar-Der JI (TAIWAN)
15:50–16:10
Look what the cat dragged in: Evaluation of an in house Cat Scratch Diseaese ELISA to detect Bartonella hensealea infection M. HERREMANS (The Netherlands)
16:10–16:30
Production of recombinant protein Pap31 and its application for the diagnosis of Bartonella bacilliformis infection W.M. CHING (USA)
16:30–16:50
Infective endocarditis due to Bartonella spp. and Coxiella burnetii: experience at a cardiology hospital in São Paulo-Brazil Rinaldo F. SICILIANO (Brazil)
16:50–17:10
Bartonella bacilliformis GroEL: effect on human vascular endothelial cell (HUVEC) growth during co-culture Michael F. MINNICK (USA)
17:10–17:30
Prevalence of Rickettsia felis-like and Bartonella spp. in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from La Rioja (Northern Spain) Sonia SANTIBAÑEZ (Spain)
17:30 – 18:00
COFFEE BREAK
18:00 – 20:00
INFECTION IN ANIMALS

Conveners: Ana GARCIA (Spain) & Yasuko RIKIHISA (USA)
18:00-18:15
Q fever in ruminants Mustapha BERRI (France)
18:15-18:30
Bartonella and Ehrlichia in dogs Edward BREITSCHWERDT (USA)
18:30–18:45
Bartonella in domestic cats and wild felids Bruno CHOMEL (USA)
18:45–19:00
Forecasting models of tick distribution and their use as risk prevention tools Agustín ESTRADA-PEÑA (Spain)
19:00–19:15
Anaplasmosis: focusing on host-vector-pathogen interactions for vaccine development José de la FUENTE (USA)
19:15–19:30
Ehrlichia ruminantium (heartwater) Suman MAHAN (South Africa)
19:30–19:45
Anaplasma and Neorickettsia in animals in the USA Yasuko RIKIHISA (USA)
19:45–20:00
Anaplasma phagocytophilum in ruminants in Europe Zerai WOLDEHIWET (UK)
08:30 – 18:00
NON STOP VISIT OF POSTERS
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
21:00 – 24:00
GALA DINNER
(20:30 Shuttle service from the Congress Palace Building to Imperial Montesol)
TUESDAY JUNE 21st
08:00 – 08:30
RICKETSIAL INFECTIONS IN TRAVELLERS
Mogen JENSENIUS (Norway)
08:30 – 10:30
SLIDE SESSION 5
Conveners: Wei-Mei CHING (USA) & Ferrán SEGURA (Spain)
08:30–08:45
Rickettsia marmionii: A new spotted fever group rickettsia in Australia. Nathan UNSWORTH (Australia)
08:45–09:00
Ecology and molecular epidemiology of tick-borne rickettsioses and anaplasmoses with natural foci in Russia and Kazakhstan. N.V. RUDAKOV (Russia)
09:00–09:15
Far Eastern tick-borne rickettsiosis, an emerging spotted fever. Oleg MEDIANNIKOV (Russia)
09:15–09:30
Discovery of a typhus group Rickettsia in Amblyomma ticks in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Aaron MEDINA-SANCHEZ (México)
09:30–09:45
Isolation of Rickettia rickettsii and Rickettsia bellii in cell culture from the tick Amblyomma aureolatum in Brazil. Adriano PINTER (Brazil)
09:45–10:00
Natural infection, transovarial transmission, and transstadial survival of Rickettsia bellii in the tick Ixodes loricatus (Acari: Ixodidae) from Brazil Mauricio C. HORTA (Brazil)
10:00–10:15
Detection and Identification of Bacterial Agents in Ixodes persulcatus from the North Western Region of Russia M. E. EREMEEVA (USA)
10:15–10:30
Phylogenetic Analysis of a Novel Molecular Isolate of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae from Northern Peru: Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae. A.L. RICHARDS (USA)
10:30 – 11:15
ASR & ESCAR & GEPE Meeting
11:15 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 13:30
SLIDE SESSION 6

Convener: Stephen DUMLER (USA) & Fatima BACELLAR (Portugal)
11:30–11:45
Route of inoculation influences T cell priming: An intradermal environment promotes a strong protective type-1 response against monocytotropic Ehrlichia. Heather STEVENSON (USA)
11:45–12:00
Nitric oxide as a mediator of the increased microvascular permeability during rickettsial infection. Michael E. WOODS (USA)
12:00–12:15
Ankyrin repeat containing immunoreactive 200 kda glycoprotein (gp200) orthologs of ehrlichia chaffeensis and e. Canis are translocated to the nuclei of infected cells. Kimberly A. NETHERY (USA)
12:15–12:30
Overcoming barriers to the transformation of the genus Ehrlichia. S. WESLEY LONG (USA)
12:30–12:45
Both exogenous and endogenous glycopilpid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections. Jochen MATTNER (USA)
12:45–13:00
Prevalence of Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides felis and Ctenocephalides canis from Uruguay. Jose Manuel VENZAL (Uruguay)
13:00-13:15
Serodiagnostic of pneumonia including Q fever with antigen microarrays. Frédérique GOURIET (France)
13:30–14:00
CLAUSURE
08:00-14:00
NON STOP VISIT OF POSTERS

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*

 
OFFICIAL JOURNEY OF THE 4TH CONFERENCE ON RICKETTSIAE AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASES FOR ACCOMPANY PEOPLE

June 19th, 2005 (Sunday)

09:45 Departure from each hotel.
A guide will meet you at your hotel for starting the journey around La Rioja:
09:45 Hotel Husa Gran Vía
09:50 Hotel Carlton Rioja
10:00 Hotel Gran AC La Rioja

11:00 Visit the monastery of San Millán de Yuso.
It is known as Human Heritage and considered the birthplace of Spanish language. Here, the first Spanish words were found. It is gothic and renaissance in style. Cloister, sacristy, a collection of ancient singing books…

13:30 Lunch at Bodegas Franco Españolas (cave).
It is the oldest cave in the city. It was opened because of an illness in French vines. French vine growers needed help and they came to Logroño trying to solve their problems. It was founded in 1890 and has been visited by the Royal Family occasionally.

16:30 Guided visit around Logroño.
We follow the Pilgrims’ Path to Santiago de Compostela alongside Logroño. Remains of the ancient walls, palaces, churches (Santiago, Santa María Imperial de Palacio, San Bartolomé)…

Arrival at the hotel.