Tick-borne encephalitis joins the diseases under surveillance in the European Union.

MEETING REPORT Second expert consultation on tick-borne diseases with emphasis on Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis

For Lyme borreliosis, no consensus was reached on its notifiable status: the complexity of the disease, with many clinical outcomes and many possible laboratory practices in use resulting in both under and over-reporting, may imply that it is not feasible to require mandatory reporting at the EU level. Yet, data collection at the EU level would be of value as Lyme borreliosis currently presents...

Tick-borne encephalitis in Europe, 2007 to 2009.

Human activities predominate in determining changing incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Europe.

Explanations for the dynamics of tick-borne disease systems usually focus on changes in the transmission potential in natural enzootic cycles. These are undoubtedly important, but recent analyses reveal that they may not be quantitatively the most significant side of the interaction between infected ticks and humans. Variation in human activities that may impact inadvertently but positively on ...

Case report: tick-borne encephalitis in two Dutch travellers returning from Austria, Netherlands, July and August 2011.

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is not endemic in the Netherlands and diagnostics are seldom requested. Here, we report about the rare event of TBE in two Dutch travellers returning from Austria in July and August 2011. This report serves to create awareness among physicians to consider travel-related TBE in their differential diagnosis of patients with neurological disease returning from TBE vir...

Prevention of tick-borne diseases.

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise. Lyme borreliosis is prevalent throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the same Ixodes tick species transmitting the etiologic agents of this disease also serve as vectors of pathogens causing human babesiosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and tick-borne encephalitis. Recently, several novel agents of rickettsial diseases have been described. Despite an e...