Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 223-232 , July 2010

Tick-borne encephalitis: Pathogenesis and clinical implications

  • Daniel Růžek

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, CZ-37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +420 38 777 5451; fax: +420 38 531 0388.
    • ,
  • Gerhard Dobler

      Affiliations

    • Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Neuherbergstrasse 11, D-80937 Munich, Germany
    • ,
  • Oliver Donoso Mantke

      Affiliations

    • German Consultant Laboratory for Tick-borne Encephalitis, Robert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, D-13353 Berlin, Germany

Received 17 May 2010 ,Revised 7 June 2010 ,Accepted 28 June 2010.

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