Tick-borne encephalitis - a notifiable disease. Report of the 15th Annual Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE)

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 363-365

  Kunze, Ursula ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ASIA; AUSTRIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EUROPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLOVENIA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE VECTOR; RISK; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CHILD; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; TICKS; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84883250336     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.04.005     Document Type: Letter

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