Estimating the annual burden of tick-borne encephalitis to inform vaccination policy, Slovenia, 2009 to 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2017, Pages

  Fafangel, Mario ^a,b   Cassini, A ^b,c   Colzani, E ^b,d   Klavs, I ^a   Grgic Vitek M ^a   Ucakar V ^a   Muehlen, M ^b   Vudrag, M ^a   Kraigher, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISABILITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGEN LOAD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLOVENIA; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VACCINATION; AGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLICY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SLOVENIA;

EID: 85018263310     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.16.30509     Document Type: Article

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