Epidemiology of tick-borne encephalitis in Switzerland, 2005 to 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2014, Pages

  Schuler, M ^a   Zimmermann, H ^b   Altpeter, E ^b   Heininger, U ^a  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines University Children's Hospital (UKBB)   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENDER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; RADICULITIS; SWITZERLAND; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VACCINE FAILURE; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWITZERLAND; TICKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898752256     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.13.20756     Document Type: Article

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