Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and vaccination of tick-borne encephalitis: an overview

• DOI: 10.29014/ns.2018.12
• Publication Date: 2018-08-02T13:16:24Z
• Authors: G. Navickaitė; R. Mineikytė; J. Valaikienė
• Keywords: Tick-borne encephalitis

The number of diagnosed tick-borne encephalitis in humans has been increasing and the virus can be seen more geographical locations. There are few reasons for cases which could attributed to popularity outdoor activities, tourism infected areas, better diagnosis disease. Lithuania is among countries Europe with absolute highest numbers documented encephalitis. In 2016, incidence EE was two times higher than 2015. Tick-borne causes human neurological symptoms. made difficult by unspecified only reliable method prevent TBE vaccination. This article presents cycle TBEV, distribution, subtypes virus, main hosts host types, clinical characteristics TBE, diagnostics