Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 380-383 , November 2008

Is there a need for a travel vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis?

  • Ursula Kunze

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Received 31 October 2007 ,Revised 16 June 2008 ,Accepted 18 June 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.06.004

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 380-383 , November 2008