Increasing evidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus transmission, the Netherlands, June 2016

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Weststrate, A C ^a   Knapen, D ^a   Laverman, G D ^a   Schot, B ^a   Prick, J J ^a   Spit, S A ^b   Reimerink, J ^c   Rockx, B ^c   Geeraedts, Felix ^d  

^a Ziekenhuis Groep Twente   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Public Health   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; MYALGIA; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TINNITUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BITES AND STINGS; CEFTRIAXONE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85016097472     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.11.30482     Document Type: Article

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