Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE): An underestimated risk...still. Report of the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE).

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-201

  Kunze, Ursula ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Awareness; International Scientific Working Group on Tick Borne Encephalitis; Risk; TBE; Tick borne encephalitis; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CZECH REPUBLIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SEROLOGY; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EUROPE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; RISK; TICKS; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84864747650     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.03.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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