Acute cytomegalovirus infection complicated by venous thrombosis: a case reportClarisse Rovery
Unite des Rickettsies, UMR6020, Faculte de Medecine, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 4:11. 2005
..CMV-induced vasculopathy and thrombosis have been reported, but they are rare conditions usually encountered in immunocompromised patients. However more and more complications of CMV infections are recognized in immunocompetent patients...
- Rickettsia conorii transcriptional response within inoculation eschar
Patricia Renesto
Unite des Rickettsies, IRD CNRS UMR 6236, Faculte de Medecine, Marseille, France
PLoS ONE 3:e3681. 2008
..The skin thus constitutes an important barrier for the entry and propagation of R. conorii. Given this, analysis of the survival strategies used by the bacterium within infected skin is critical for our understanding of rickettsiosis...
- The effect of a single dose of oral ivermectin on pruritus in the homeless
Sekene Badiaga
Unite des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculte de Medecine, 13185 Marseille, France
J Antimicrob Chemother 62:404-9. 2008
..Homeless people commonly present with ectoparasite-based pruritus. We evaluated the efficacy of a single dose of ivermectin to reduce the pruritus prevalence in a homeless population...
- Questions on Mediterranean spotted fever a century after its discovery
Clarisse Rovery
Unite des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR6020, Marseille, France
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1360-7. 2008
..Moreover, MSF has become more severe than RMSF; the mortality rate was as high as 32% in Portugal in 1997. Whether Rhipicephalus sanguineus is the only vector and reservoir for R. conorii conorii is a question not yet answered...
- Rickettsia slovaca and R. raoultii in tick-borne Rickettsioses
Philippe Parola
Unite des Rickettsies, Marseille, France
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1105-8. 2009
..We identified the etiologic agent for 65% of 86 patients with TIBOLA/DEBONEL as either Rickettsia slovaca (49/86, 57%) or R. raoultii (7/86, 8%)...
- Analysis of risk factors for malignant Mediterranean spotted fever indicates that fluoroquinolone treatment has a deleterious effect
Elisabeth Botelho-Nevers
URMITE UMR CNRS 6236, IRD 198, Universite de la Mediterranee, Faculte de Medecine, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
J Antimicrob Chemother 66:1821-30. 2011
..To identify risk factors for malignant Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) caused by Rickettsia conorii conorii...
- Bartonella quintana coinfection with Mycobacterium avium complex and CMV in an AIDS patient: case presentation
Clarisse Rovery
Service de maladies infectieuses et de médecine tropicale, Hopital Nord, APHM, Marseille, France
BMC Infect Dis 6:89. 2006
..As a greater number of HIV-infected patients survive despite profound immunodepression due to medical progress, we face complex infection with multiple agents in AIDS-patients...
- Mediterranean spotted fever
Clarisse Rovery
URMITE UMR6236 CNRS IRD, Faculte de Medecine, 27, Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille, France
Infect Dis Clin North Am 22:515-30, ix. 2008
..However, many questions still remain, including the identity of the real vector and reservoir of R conorii, and whether other risk factors exist for a severe form of MSF...
- Development of a method for recovering rickettsial RNA from infected cells to analyze gene expression profiling of obligate intracellular bacteria
My Van La
Unite des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR6020, IFR48, Faculte de Medecine, 27, Bd Jean Moulin, Marseille, France
J Microbiol Methods 71:292-7. 2007
..We conclude that this approach has great potential for the study of mechanisms behind the virulence and intracellular survival of members of the genus Rickettsia...
- Congenital tuberculosis after in vitro fertilization
Barbara Doudier
Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hopital Nord, Marseille, France
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:277-8. 2008
..In vitro fertilization (IVF) represents a useful treatment of infertility after TB. We report the first case of congenital TB after IVF and suggest improvement of usual screening before and after IVF...
- Oral ivermectin in the treatment of body lice
Cedric Foucault
Unite des Rickettsies CNRS UMR 6020, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie INSERM UMR 399, Faculte de Medecine, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
J Infect Dis 193:474-6. 2006
..9% to 18.5%. Although this effect was not sustained at day 45, it establishes that ivermectin plays a novel role in the control of body-louse infestation in humans...
