First evidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) outside of Hokkaido Island in Japan

First evidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) outside of Hokkaido Island in Japan

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an infection of the central nervous system caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). TBE is endemic in parts of Europe and Asia. TBEV is transmitted to humans primarily by Ixodes ticks. There have been 5 TBE cases identified in Japan, all on the northern is...

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Main Authors: Masayuki Ohira, Kentaro Yoshii, Yasuhiro Aso, Hideto Nakajima, Toru Yamashita, Ikuko Takahashi-Iwata, Norihisa Maeda, Katsuro Shindo, Toshihiko Suenaga, Tohru Matsuura, Kazuma Sugie, Tadanori Hamano, Akira Arai, Rikiya Furutani, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Chikako Kaneko, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Eduardo Campos-Alberto, Lisa R. Harper, Juanita Edwards, Cody Bender, Andreas Pilz, Shuhei Ito, Frederick J. Angulo, Wilhelm Erber, Harish Madhava, Jennifer Moïsi, Luis Jodar, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Masaki Takao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-12-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
Subjects:
Tick-borne encephalitis
Far-Eastern subtype
arbovirus
flavivirus
tick-borne diseases
epidemiology
Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22221751.2023.2278898
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