Tick-borne encephalitis virus foci in Slovakia.

@article{citeulike:1676931, abstract = {Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus as a typical arbovirus relies on two types of hosts for its survival: ticks act both as virus vectors and reservoir hosts, and vertebrates amplify the virus infection by acting as a source of infection for feeding ticks. Longitudinal monitoring of TBE virus in ticks and vertebrate hosts including humans over a period of 40 years resulted in the identification of the areas of Slovakia where TBE virus is endemic. These are concentrated to the western, southern, and eastern parts of the country. Even with recently identified foci there is no evidence that the size and location of the natural TBE foci have changed significantly during the last decades. Numbers of diagnosed hospitalised cases of TBE in Slovakia vary from less than 20 to almost 100 cases annually with 54-89 cases in recent years. A part of these cases (33 cases during the last 5 years) are alimentary infections after drinking of raw goat and sheep milk.}, address = {Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. uzaelabu@savba.sk}, author = {Labuda, M. and Eleckov\'{a}, E. and Lickov\'{a}, M. and Sab\'{o}, A. }, citeulike-article-id = {1676931}, issn = {1438-4221}, journal = {Int J Med Microbiol}, keywords = {encephalitis, ixodes, tick-borne, ticks}, month = {June}, pages = {43--47}, posted-at = {2008-01-11 09:33:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Tick-borne encephalitis virus foci in Slovakia.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12141756}, volume = {291 Suppl 33}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1676931 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1676931 TI - Tick-borne encephalitis virus foci in Slovakia. JF - Int J Med Microbiol VL - 291 Suppl 33 SP - 43 EP - 47 AD - Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. uzaelabu@savba.sk SN - 1438-4221 N2 - Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus as a typical arbovirus relies on two types of hosts for its survival: ticks act both as virus vectors and reservoir hosts, and vertebrates amplify the virus infection by acting as a source of infection for feeding ticks. Longitudinal monitoring of TBE virus in ticks and vertebrate hosts including humans over a period of 40 years resulted in the identification of the areas of Slovakia where TBE virus is endemic. These are concentrated to the western, southern, and eastern parts of the country. Even with recently identified foci there is no evidence that the size and location of the natural TBE foci have changed significantly during the last decades. Numbers of diagnosed hospitalised cases of TBE in Slovakia vary from less than 20 to almost 100 cases annually with 54-89 cases in recent years. A part of these cases (33 cases during the last 5 years) are alimentary infections after drinking of raw goat and sheep milk. KW - encephalitis KW - ixodes KW - tick-borne KW - ticks AU - Labuda, M AU - Elecková, E AU - Licková, M AU - Sabó, A PY - 2002/06// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12141756 ER -