Tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks detached from humans and follow-up of serological and clinical response

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-28

  Lindblom, Pontus ^a   Wilhelmsson, Peter ^a   Fryland, Linda ^a   Sjöwall, Johanna ^a,c   Haglund, Mats ^b   Matussek, Andreas ^d   Ernerudh, Jan ^a   Vene, Sirkka ^e   Nyman, Dag ^f   Andreassen, Åshild ^g   Forsberg, Pia ^a,c   Lindgren, Per Eric ^a,d  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine   (Sweden)

^d RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^f Aland Central Hospital   (Finland)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clinical symptoms; Ixodes ricinus; Real time PCR; Serology; TBEV

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VACCINATION; VERTIGO; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; RISK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; RISK; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN; TICK BITES;

EID: 84888340170     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.07.009     Document Type: Article

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