page_title: Didier Raoult
section_title: Selected papers
hierarchical_section_title: Didier Raoult / Selected papers
caption_attribution_description: English: Raoultella planticola in SIM agar, showing a negative result for H2S production, a negative result for the indole test (after Kovac's reagent has been added), and a negative result for motility. Deutsch: Raoultella planticola im SIM-Agar, mit negativem Ergebnis für die H2S-Bildung, mit negativem Ergebnis im Indol-Test (nachdem Kovacs Indol-Reagenz hinzugefügt wurde), und mit negativem Ergebnis für Motilität. Français&#160;: Raoultella planticola dans la SIM agar, montrant un résultat négatif pour la production de H2S, un résultat négatif pour le test de l'indole (après l'ajout du réactif de Kovac) et un résultat négatif pour la motilité.
context_page_description: Didier Raoult is a French physician and microbiologist specializing in infectious diseases. In 1984, Raoult created the Rickettsia Unit at Aix-Marseille University. He also teaches infectious diseases in the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University. Since 2008, Raoult has been the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease.
context_section_description: Bernard La Scola; Stéphane Audic; Catherine Robert; Liang Jungang; Xavier de Lamballerie; Michel Drancourt; Richard Birtles; Jean-Michel Claverie; Didier Raoult (28 March 2003). "A Giant Virus in Amoebae". Science. 299 (5615): 2033. doi:10.1126/science.1081867. PMID 12663918.
  Levasseur, Anthony; Bekliz, Meriem; Chabrière, Eric; Pontarotti, Pierre; La Scola, Bernard; Raoult, Didier (2016). "MIMIVIRE is a defence system in mimivirus that confers resistance to virophage". Nature. 531 (7593): 249–52. Bibcode:2016Natur.531..249L. doi:10.1038/nature17146. PMID 26934229.
  Desnues, C; La Scola, B; Yutin, N; Fournous, G; Robert, C; Azza, S; Jardot, P; Monteil, S; Campocasso, A; Koonin, E. V; Raoult, D (2012). "Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (44): 18078–83. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10918078D. doi:10.1073/pnas.1208835109. JSTOR 41829810. PMC 3497776. PMID 23071316.
  Boyer, M; Yutin, N; Pagnier, I; Barrassi, L; Fournous, G; Espinosa, L; Robert, C; Azza, S; Sun, S; Rossmann, M. G; Suzan-Monti, M; La Scola, B; Koonin, E. V; Raoult, D (2009). "Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (51): 21848–53. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10621848B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0911354106. PMC 2799887. PMID 20007369.
  Reteno, Dorine Gaëlle; Benamar, Samia; Khalil, Jacques Bou; Andreani, Julien; Armstrong, Nicholas; Klose, Thomas; Rossmann, Michael; Colson, Philippe; Raoult, Didier; La Scola, Bernard (2015). "Faustovirus, an Asfarvirus-Related New Lineage of Giant Viruses Infecting Amoebae". Journal of Virology. 89 (13): 6585–94. doi:10.1128/JVI.00115-15. PMC 4468488. PMID 25878099.
  Drancourt, M; Bollet, C; Carta, A; Rousselier, P (May 2001). "Phylogenetic analyses of Klebsiella species delineate Klebsiella and Raoultella gen. nov., with description of Raoultella ornithinolytica comb. nov., Raoultella terrigena comb. nov. and Raoultella planticola comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 3): 925–32. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-925. PMID 11411716.
  Parola P, Paddock CD, Raoult D. Tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: emerging diseases challenging old concepts. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005;18(4):719-56. Review.
  Raoult D, Roux V. Rickettsioses as paradigms of new or emerging infectious diseases. Clin Microbiol Rev. 1997 Oct;10(4):694-719. Review.
  Melenotte C, Million M, Audoly G, Gorse A, Dutronc H, Roland G, Dekel M, Moreno A, Cammilleri S, Carrieri MP, Protopopescu C, Ruminy P, Lepidi H, Nadel B, Mege JL, Xerri L, Raoult D. B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma linked to Coxiella burnetii. Blood. 2016 Jan 7;127(1):113-21.
  Million M, Thuny F, Bardin N, Angelakis E, Edouard S, Bessis S, Guimard T, Weitten T, Martin-Barbaz F, Texereau M, Ayouz K, Protopopescu C, Carrieri P, Habib G, Raoult D. Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome With Valvular Vegetations in Acute Q Fever. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 1;62(5):537-44.
  Eldin, C; Raoult, D (April 2016). "Moving from Q fever to C. burnetii infection". Epidemiol Infect. 144 (6): 1163–4. doi:10.1017/s0950268815002976. PMID 26607959.
  Raoult D, Houpikian P, Tissot Dupont H, Riss JM, Arditi-Djiane J, Brouqui P. Treatment of Q fever endocarditis: comparison of 2 regimens containing doxycycline and ofloxacin or hydroxychloroquine. Arch Intern Med. 1999 Jan 25;159(2):167-73.
  Raoult D, Fournier PE, Drancourt M. What does the future hold for clinical microbiology? Nat Rev Microbiol. 2004 Feb;2(2):151-9. Review.
  Fournier PE, Drancourt M, Colson P, Rolain JM, La Scola B, Raoult D. Modern clinical microbiology: new challenges and solutions. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2013 Aug;11(8):574-85.Review.
  Drancourt, M; Bollet, C; Carlioz, A; Martelin, R; Gayral, JP; Raoult, D (October 2000). "16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis of a large collection of environmental and clinical unidentifiable bacterial isolates". J Clin Microbiol. 38 (10): 3623–30. doi:10.1128/jcm.38.10.3623-3630.2000.
  Fournier, Pierre‐Edouard; Thuny, Franc
caption: Bacteria Raoultella planticola in a test tube.
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