Autochthonous Cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Belgium, 2020

We report 3 confirmed autochthonous tick-borne encephalitis cases in Belgium diagnosed during summer 2020. Clinicians should include this viral infection in the differential diagnosis for patients with etiologically unexplained neurologic manifestations, even for persons without recent travel history.

Verfasser: Anke Stoefs
Leo Heyndrickx
Jonathan De Winter
Evelien Coeckelbergh
Barbara Willekens
Alicia Alonso-Jiménez
Anne-Marie Tuttino
Yvette Geerts
Kevin K. Ariën
Marjan Van Esbroeck
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss 8, Pp 2179-2182 (2021)
Verlag/Hrsg.: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Schlagwörter: central nervous system viral diseases / vector-borne infections / tick-borne encephalitis / arbovirus infections / encephalitis / arboviruses / Medicine / R / Infectious and parasitic diseases / RC109-216
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.211175