Why is tick-borne encephalitis increasing? A review of the key factors causing the increasing incidence of human TBE in Swedena

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jaenson, Thomas G T ^a   Hjertqvist, Marika ^b   Bergström, Tomas ^c   Lundkvist, Åke ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SMI   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Capreolus capreolus; Ixodes ricinus; Myodes glareolus; Roe deer; Sweden; TBE Epidemiology; Tick borne encephalitis virus; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWEDEN; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IXODES; LARVA; NYMPH; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SWEDEN; TICK INFESTATIONS; WEATHER;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84865564337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-184     Document Type: Review

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