title: A century of rickettsiology: emerging, reemerging rickettsioses, clinical, epidemiologic, and molecular diagnostic aspects and emerging veterinary rickettsioses: an overview.
abstract: This overview summarize the salient features of advances in the epidemiology, vectors, and clinical and laboratory diagnoses of rickettsiology. Presentations on veterinary rickettsiology highlight the importance of the rickettsiae in animal husbandry.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Disease, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York 12208, USA. khechemy@nycap.rr.com
authors.forename: Karim E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Hechemy
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Oteo
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Silverman
authors.forename: José Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Blanco
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D012287:Rickettsiaceae; D012288:Rickettsiaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D016996:Rickettsieae; D012373:Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Q000453:epidemiology; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology