<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mokrani, Khamsa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tebbal, Soraya</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Raoult, Didier</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fournier, Pierre Edouard</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human rickettsioses in the Batna area, eastern Algeria</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jounal of ScienceDirect, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 152, ISSN: 1877-9603, PMID: 23182273, DecJounal of ScienceDirect, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 152, ISSN: 1877-9603, PMID: 23182273, Dec</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5-6</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pp 364-366</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In order to investigate the&amp;nbsp;prevalence&amp;nbsp;of rickettsioses in febrile&amp;nbsp;exanthemas&amp;nbsp;in eastern Algeria, we conducted a prospective serological analysis of all patients presenting with this clinical picture at the&amp;nbsp;Infectious Diseases&amp;nbsp;Department in the Batna&amp;nbsp;Hospital&amp;nbsp;from January 2000 to September 2006. One hundred and eight&amp;nbsp;adult&amp;nbsp;patients were included in the study, 46% of whom younger than 25 years, and 72.5% were admitted from May to September. Patients were tested for&amp;nbsp;antibodies&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;Rickettsia conorii&amp;nbsp;conorii,&amp;nbsp;R. conorii israelensis,&amp;nbsp;R. aeschlimannii,&amp;nbsp;R.&amp;nbsp;felis,&amp;nbsp;R. sibirica mongolitimonae,&amp;nbsp;R. africae,&amp;nbsp;R.&amp;nbsp;massiliae,&amp;nbsp;R. typhi, and&amp;nbsp;R. prowazekii&amp;nbsp;using microimmunofluorescence and&amp;nbsp;Western blot&amp;nbsp;as confirmation procedure. Both methods confirmed the&amp;nbsp;diagnosis&amp;nbsp;ofMediterranean spotted fever&amp;nbsp;in 5 patients (4.6%), flea&amp;nbsp;spotted fever&amp;nbsp;in 2 patients (1.9%), and&amp;nbsp;R. aeschlimannii&amp;nbsp;infection in 2 patients (1.9%). In addition, 4 patients were diagnosed as having&amp;nbsp;murine typhus&amp;nbsp;(3.7%) and one with epidemic&amp;nbsp;typhus&amp;nbsp;(0.9%). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report ofR. felis&amp;nbsp;infection and&amp;nbsp;R. aeschlimannii&amp;nbsp;infection in Algeria. In conclusion, at least 5 different kinds of&amp;nbsp;rickettsiosis&amp;nbsp;coexist in eastern Algeria and, being responsible for 13% of cases of febrile exanthemas, should be considered among major causes of this clinical picture in this&amp;nbsp;area. In addition, we emphasize the high incidence of typhus group rickettioses, includingepidemic typhus, in this area.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>