Rickettsiales

Part I. Rickettsiales: Importance and Taxonomy

1. The Importance of Rickettsiales Infections
Sunil Thomas, Walker Alexander, John Gilligan, Yasuko Rikihisa

2. Molecular Epidemiology of Rickettsial Diseases
Marina E. Eremeeva

3. Biodiversity of “Non-model” Rickettsiales and Their Association with Aquatic Organisms
Michele Castelli, Davide Sassera, Giulio Petroni

Part II. Rickettsiales: Diagnosis and Management of Diseases

4.
Rickettsiales: Laboratory Diagnosis
Lucas S. Blanton

5.
Rickettsiales: Treatment and Management of Human Disease
Lucas S. Blanton

6. DHR-ICMR Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Rickettsial Diseases in India
Manju Rahi, M. D. Gupte, Anurag Bhargava, George M. Varghese, Rashmi Arora

Part III. Anaplasma

7.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Sheep
Erik Georg Granquist

Part IV. Ehrlichia

8. Exit Strategies of Ehrlichia

Sunil Thomas

9. Development of Vaccines for Ehrlichiosis
Sunil Thomas

10. Identification of T-Cell Epitopes in the Murine Host Response to Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Stephen K. Chapes, M. Teresa Ortega, Chuanmin Cheng, Roman R. Ganta

11. Mutagenesis in Ehrlichia and Anaplasma Species: Its Application for Studies Focused on Understanding the Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development
Roman R. Ganta

12. Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Pathogenic Mechanisms of Ehrlichia Infections
Xue-jie Yu, David H. Walker

13.
Ehrlichia ruminantium: The Causal Agent of Heartwater
Isabel Marcelino, Philippe Holzmuller, Frédéric Stachurski, Valérie Rodrigues, Nathalie Vachiéry

Part V. Midichloria

14. Transmission of Members of the “Candidatus Midichloriaceae” Family to Vertebrates and Possible Involvement in Disease Pathogenesis
Michele Castelli, Una McCarthy, Giulio Petroni, Chiara Bazzocchi

Part VI. Neorickettsia

15. Transmission Biology, Host Associations, Distribution and Molecular Diagnostics of Neorickettsia

Vasyl V. Tkach, Stephen E. Greiman

Part VII. Orientia

16. Scrub Typhus and Its Causative Agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi

Gemma Vincent

17. Epidemiological Trends of Scrub Typhus: Global Incidence and Vector Distribution
Na-Young Ha, Gwanghun Kim, Nam-Hyuk Cho

18. Biology of Orientia tsutsugamushi

Rahul Narang

Part VIII. Rickettsia

19. Human Rickettsioses: Host Response and Molecular Pathogenesis
Casey Schroeder, Imran Chowdhury, Hema Narra, Jignesh Patel, Abha Sahni, Sanjeev Sahni

20. Genomes of Rickettsia Species
Rita Abou-Abdallah, Khalid El Karkouri, Didier Raoult, Pierre-Edouard Fournier

Part IX. Wolbachia

21.
Wolbachia

Benjamin L. Makepeace, A. Christina Gill

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