Siberian subtype tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus in a newly emerged focus, Finland.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis
; 7(1): 216-223, 2016 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
The first tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) cases in Kotka, Finland appeared in 2010. Altogether ten human cases have been diagnosed by 2014. Four had long-lasting sequelae. We collected 195 Ixodes ricinus ticks, nine rodents, and eleven shrews from the archipelago of Kotka in 2011. Three Siberian subtype TBE virus (TBEV) strains were isolated from the ticks and three mammals were positive for TBEV antibodies. The archipelago of Kotka is a newly emerged TBE focus of Siberian subtype TBEV circulating notably in I. ricinus. The patients had on average longer hospitalization than reported for the European subtype infection.
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Ixodes
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Encefalite Transmitida por Carrapatos
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Vírus da Encefalite Transmitidos por Carrapatos
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2016
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