Emergence of tick-borne encephalitis in new endemic areas in Austria: 42 years of surveillance

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2015, Pages

  Heinz, F X ^a   Stiasny, K ^a   Holzmann, H ^a   Kundi, M ^a   Six, W ^b   Wenk, M ^c   Kainz, W ^c   Essl, A ^d   Kunz, C ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d GfK Austria Healthcare   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE CARRIER; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TICK; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; TICKS; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84926443196     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.13.21077     Document Type: Article

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