Rickettsiales

Sunil ThomasLankenau Institute for Medical ResearchWynnewood, PA

lt;p>Part 1. Rickettsial: Importance and Taxonomy.- The Importance of Rickettsiales Infections.- Molecular Epidemiology of Rickettsial Disease.- Biodiversity of "Non-Model" Rickettsiales and Their Association with Aquatic Organisms.- Part 2. Rickettsiales: Diagnosis and Management of Diseases.- Rickettsiales: Laboratory Diagnosis.- Rickettsiales: Treatment and Management of Human Disease.- DHR-ICMR Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Rickettsial Disease in India.- Part 3. Ehrlichia.- Exit Strategies for Ehrlichia.- Development of Vaccines for Ehrlichiosis.- Identification of T Cell Epitopes in the Murine Host Response to Ehrlichia chaffeensis.- Mutagenesis in Ehrlichia and Anaplasma Species.- Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Mechanism of Ehrlichia Infections.- Ehrlichia ruminantium: The Casual Agent of Heartwater.- Part 4. Rickettsia.- Human Rickettsioses: Host Response and Molecular Pathogenesis.- Genomes of Rickettsia Species.- Part 5. Anaplasma.- Anaplasma phagocytophilum in sheep.- Part 6. Neorickettsia.- Transmission Biology, Host Associations, Distribution and Molecular Diagnostics of Neorickettsia.- Part 6. Orientia.- Scrub typhus and its causative agent, Orientia tsutsugamushi.- Epidemiological Trends of Scrub Typhus.- Biology of Orientia tsutsugamushi.- Part 8. Wolbachia.- Wolbachia.- Part 9. Midichloraceae.- Transmission of Members of the Candidatus Midichloriaceae Family to Vertebrates and Possible Involvement in Disease Pathogenesis.