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It is suspected that apart from tick-borne encephalitis virus several additional European Arboviruses such as the sandfly borne Toscana virus, sandfly fever Sicilian virus and sandfly fever Naples virus, mosquito-borne Tahyna virus, Inkoo virus, Batai virus and tick-borne Uukuniemi virus cause aseptic meningo-encephalitis or febrile disease in Europe. Currently, the microarray technology is dev...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of serologic reactivity, the 1-year incidence of seroconversion, and the frequency of multiple infections, and their associations with symptoms in a group of volunteers at high risk for tick-borne infections in New York state. METHODS We performed a seroepidemiologic study of Lyme borreliosis, 2 of the ehrlichioses, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and babesio...

Climate change is affecting human health worldwide. In particular, changes to local and global climate parameters influence vector water-borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever, tick-borne encephalitis. The Republic of Sakha in northern Russia no exception. Long-term trends increasing annual temperatures thawing permafrost have corresponded with the northward range expansion tick-species Repu...