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Florence Fenollar
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 173
Citations - 8368
Florence Fenollar is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tropheryma whipplei & Whipple's disease. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 136 publications receiving 7478 citations. Previous affiliations of Florence Fenollar include Aix-Marseille University & Institut de recherche pour le développement.
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Whipple's disease.
TL;DR: Major advances made recently in techniques for detecting and isolating the causative agent may show that Whipple's disease is more common and has a broader clinical spectrum than was previously thought.
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Whipple's Disease: New Aspects of Pathogenesis and Treatment
Thomas Schneider,Verena Moos,Christoph Loddenkemper,Thomas Marth,Florence Fenollar,Didier Raoult +5 more
TL;DR: The epidemiology of Whipple's disease and the recent progress made in the understanding of its pathogenesis and the biology of its agent are reviewed and procedures for the improvement of diagnosis and an optimum therapeutic strategy are suggested.
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Molecular quantification of Gardnerella vaginalis and Atopobium vaginae loads to predict bacterial vaginosis.
TL;DR: A highly reproducible, quantitative tool to objectively analyze vaginal flora that uses cutoff values for the concentrations of A. vaginae and G. vaginalis to establish the molecular diagnosis of BV is reported.
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Rickettsia africae, a tick-borne pathogen in travelers to sub-Saharan Africa.
Didier Raoult,Pierre E. Fournier,Florence Fenollar,Mogens Jensenius,Tine Prioe,Jean Jacques de Pina,Giuseppe Caruso,Nicola Jones,Herman Laferl,John E. Rosenblatt,Thomas J. Marrie +10 more
TL;DR: R. africae was the cause of nearly all cases of tick-bite rickettsiosis in patients who became ill after a trip to sub-Saharan Africa, and the combination of microimmunofluorescence assay, Western blotting, and cross-adsorption assays showing antibodies specific for R. africaae had a sensitivity and a specificity.
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Risks Factors and Prevention of Q Fever Endocarditis
Florence Fenollar,Pierre-Edouard Fournier,M. Patrizia Carrieri,Gilbert Habib,Thierry Messana,Didier Raoult +5 more
TL;DR: The results of a retrospective study of patients diagnosed as having Q fever during 1985-2000 should encourage physicians to detect valvular lesions in patients with acute Q fever and to search for acute Q Fever in patientsWith a valvulopathy and unexplained fever.