| detection of the tick-borne encephalitis virus (tbev) in ticks in several federal "länder" of germany by means of the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)--characterization of the virus. | the aim of the present study was to analyse the current epidemiological situation with respect to tbe in the new federal "länder" of germany and in saarland through detection of the tbev genome in unengorged ticks using an rt-pcr technique. 22,273 ticks (ixodes ricinus) were collected in the five new "länder" (and some in bavaria and baden-württemberg) and divided into 294 pools. it was possible to detect tbev rna in six pools of ticks from mecklenburg western-pomerania [4], brandenburg [1], thu ... | 1996 | 8923058 |