| foci of tick-borne diseases in southwest germany. | presently known tick-borne diseases in germany include lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis (tbe-virus, western subtype), q-fever, babesiosis and presumably ehrlichiosis. blood samples of 4,368 forestry workers in the state of baden-wuerttemberg (b-w), southwestern germany, were tested for the presence of antibodies against borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, tbe-virus and ehrlichia spp. (genogroup e. phagocytophila). furthermore 12,327 ticks (ixodes ricinus) collected in various areas of b-w ... | 2002 | 12141751 |
| tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) in germany--epidemiological data, development of risk areas and virus prevalence in field-collected ticks and in ticks removed from humans. | in germany, 100-300 autochthonous clinical tbe cases have been recorded annually. there are high-risk areas in bavaria and baden-wuerttemberg and ongoing low-risk areas in hesse, thuringia, and the rhineland-palatinate and single cases in saxony. in order to be able to evaluate the epidemiological changes described here, it must be mentioned that a new definition of tbe risk areas was introduced on the district level in 1998 in germany and in 2001 with the new infection protection act (infektion ... | 2004 | 15146987 |