Tick-borne encephalitis - A notifiable disease, a review after one year: Report of the 16th annual meeting of the international scientific working group on tick-borne encephalitis (ISW-TBE)

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 453-456

  Kunze, Ursula ^a   Aspöck, Horst ^b   Atkinson, Barry ^b   Avdičová, Maria ^b   Böhm, Gabriela ^b   Chitimia, Lidia ^b   Chlibek, Roman ^b   Chmelik, Vaclav ^b   Dautel, Hans ^b   Dobler, Gerhard ^b   Duscher, Georg ^b   Engmann, Mona Lisa ^b   Fowler, Asa ^b   Gessner, André ^b   Heinz, Franz Xaver ^b   Hofmann, Gerhard ^b   Hudecková, Henrieta ^b   Jilkovà, Eva ^b   Kahl, Olaf ^b   Karelis, Guntis ^b   Kimmig, Peter ^b   Kunze, Michael ^b   Mackenstedt, Ute ^b   Madar, Rasti ^b   Marth, Egon ^b   Mickiene, Aukse ^b   Monazahian, Masyar ^b   Niedrig, Matthias ^b   Oehme, Rainer ^b   Paulke Korinek, Maria ^b   Péter, Olivier ^b   Pfeffer, Martin ^b   Ponfick, Matthias ^b   Prelog, Martina ^b   Prymula, Roman ^b   Ruscio, Maurizio ^b   Schmutzhard, Erich ^b   Sebastian, Patrick ^b   Sidorcka, Tatjana ^b   Sonnleitner, Astrid ^b   Stanek, Gerold ^b   Steffen, Robert ^b   Sundin, Mikael ^b   Süss, Jochen ^b   Taba, Pille ^b   Tonteri, Elina ^b   Vaheri, Antti ^b   Vapalahti, Oli ^b   Vaverkova, Renata ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b   Warncke, Cornelius ^b   Zajkowska, Joanna ^b   Zavadska, Dace ^b   Zeller, Hervé ^b   Zenz, Werner ^b   Zygutiene, Milda ^b   more..

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Awareness; International scientific working group on tick borne encephalitis; Risk; TBE; Tick borne encephalitis; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOG; DRUG INDICATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LETTER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALORADICULOMYELITIS; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PERIODICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWEDEN; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EUROPE; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTOR;

IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84904040879     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.05.001     Document Type: Letter

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