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Increased relative risk of tick-borne encephalitis in warmer weather
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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a serious acute neuroinfection of humans caused by a tick-borne flavivirus. The disease is typically seasonal, linked to the host-seeking activity of Ixodes ricinus (predominantly nymphs), the principal European tick vector species. To address the need for accurate risk predictions of contracting TBE, data on 4,044 TBE cases reported in the Czech Republic during 2001–2006 were compared with questing activity of I. ricinus nymphs monitored weekly at a defined l...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Institute of Public Health
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- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Article number:
- 90
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-07
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2235-2988
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- pubs:833697
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-04-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Daniel et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 Daniel et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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