TY - JOUR
T1 - Tick-borne encephalitis
T2 - From epidemiology to vaccination recommendations in 2007, new issues - best practices
AU - ISW-TBE Collaboration
AU - Kunze, Ursula
AU - Asokliene, Loreta
AU - Aspöck, Horst
AU - Balciuniene, Ligita
AU - Baumhackl, Ulf
AU - Chmelik, Vaclav
AU - Dobler, Gerhard
AU - Donne, Jean Pierre
AU - Freund, Christine
AU - Goujon, Catherine
AU - Günther, Goran
AU - Haditsch, Martin
AU - Haglund, Mats
AU - Hansmann, Yves
AU - Heinz, Franz X.
AU - Jaago, Krista
AU - Jelenik, Zsuzsa
AU - Kalnina, Vaira
AU - Kapeller, Peter
AU - Karelis, Guntis
AU - Kimmig, Peter
AU - Klemets, Peter
AU - Kraiger, Alenka
AU - Kunz, Christian
AU - Kunze, Michael
AU - Linquist, Lars
AU - Lucenko, Irena
AU - Luyasu, Victor
AU - Marth, Egon
AU - Meyding-Lamadè, Uta
AU - Mickiene, Aukse
AU - Novak, Helmut
AU - Oehme, Rainer
AU - Prymula, Roman
AU - Randolph, Sarah
AU - Rendi-Wagner, Pamela
AU - Stanek, Gerold
AU - Steffen, Robert
AU - Strle, Franc
AU - Süss, Jochen
AU - Talarek, Ewa
AU - Usonis, Vytautas
AU - Vapalahti, Oli
AU - Wiedermann-Schmidt, Ursula
AU - Zenz, Werner
AU - Zilmer, Kai
AU - Zimmermann, Hans Peter
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The 9th annual meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW TBE) was entitled "Tick-borne encephalitis: from epidemiology to vaccination recommendations in 2007, new issues - best practices". Over the past three decades, TBE has become a growing public health challenge in Europe and other parts of the world. Between 1974 and 2003, the number of reported clinical TBE cases increased by an appalling 400 %, the only exception having been Austria. This increase is the result of a complex interplay of social, economic, political, ecological and climatic factors, the relative weight of which is not easily quantifiable. Important projects and issues for the future work of the ISW TBE have been identified, such as implementing a standardized TBE case definition, raising awareness of TBE among travellers, availability of rapid immunization schemes, increasing vaccination rates in endemic countries, and publishing information on TBE cases.
AB - The 9th annual meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW TBE) was entitled "Tick-borne encephalitis: from epidemiology to vaccination recommendations in 2007, new issues - best practices". Over the past three decades, TBE has become a growing public health challenge in Europe and other parts of the world. Between 1974 and 2003, the number of reported clinical TBE cases increased by an appalling 400 %, the only exception having been Austria. This increase is the result of a complex interplay of social, economic, political, ecological and climatic factors, the relative weight of which is not easily quantifiable. Important projects and issues for the future work of the ISW TBE have been identified, such as implementing a standardized TBE case definition, raising awareness of TBE among travellers, availability of rapid immunization schemes, increasing vaccination rates in endemic countries, and publishing information on TBE cases.
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Public health
KW - TBE
KW - Tick-borne encephalitis
KW - Vaccination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34250848338&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10354-007-0424-8
DO - 10.1007/s10354-007-0424-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 17564770
AN - SCOPUS:34250848338
SN - 0043-5341
VL - 157
SP - 228
EP - 232
JO - Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
JF - Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
IS - 9-10
ER -
