Tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease in Hungary: The epidemiological situation between 1998 and 2008

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 256-265

  Zöldi, Viktor ^a   Juhász, Attila ^b   Nagy, Csilla ^b   Papp, Zoltán ^c   Egyed, László ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Public Health Administration Government Office of the Capital City Budapest   (Hungary)

^c Public Health Administration Government Office of the Heves County   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Tick borne encephalitis; Vector borne.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUNGARY; LANDSCAPE; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ONSET AGE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; AGED; ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; SEASON; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; FORESTS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875735495     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0905     Document Type: Article

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