| incidence of spirochetes (borrelia sp.) in the tick ixodes ricinus in the urban environment (capital of prague) between 1994-1997. | a total of 12287 ticks were collected from 10 localities of the capital of prague between 1994 and 1997 (2978 ticks in 1994, 5612 ticks in 1995-1996, 3686 ticks in 1997). the presence of borrelia was investigated by the indirect immunofluorescence assay using hyperimmune rabbit sera. the tick infestation ranged between 3.8% and 9.7% (1994), 7.9% and 11.3% (1995), 3.6% and 6.2% (1996) and 4.8% and 9.2% (1997). the results obtained are indicative of a relatively high opportunity for exposure to th ... | 1999 | 10096169 |
| incidence of borrelia garinii and borrelia afzelii in ixodes ricinus ticks in an urban environment, prague, czech republic, between 1995 and 1998. | the presence of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and its individual genospecies was determined using a single-step polymerase chain reaction in a total of 779 ixodes ricinus ticks collected from an urban park in prague, czech republic. the incidence of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato was 9.2% in 1995, 3.4% in 1996, 4.5% in 1997 and 2.8% in 1998. the borrelia garinii to borrelia afzelii ratio was 1.4:1 and it did not differ significantly throughout the study period. borrelia burgdorferi sensu stri ... | 1999 | 10482032 |
| [effects of climate change on the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in the czech republic in the past two decades]. | the study objective was an attempt to explain uneven distribution of the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) throughout the past two decades. a sharp rise was recorded in the last decade: while 2596 tbe cases were reported in the decade 1983-1992, as many as 5892 tbe cases were reported in the decade 1993-2002, with high rates persisting also in the following years (606 tbe cases reported in 2003). data from the database tbe epidat of the national institute of public health, prague, and t ... | 2004 | 15633538 |
| risk assessment and prediction of ixodes ricinus tick questing activity and human tick-borne encephalitis infection in space and time in the czech republic. | present risk assessment and prediction of future risk of humans exposed to ixodes (i.) ricinus tick attacks and, consequently, to tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) virus infection as one of the basic preconditions for successful tbe prevention has been intensively studied in the czech republic. an atlas of tbe in the czech republic containing predictive maps of i. ricinus high-incidence habitats and tbe risk sites identified by satellite data (landsat 5 tm with spatial resolution 30 m) at a scale of ... | 2006 | 16567128 |
| correlation between meteorological factors and tick-borne encephalitis incidence in the czech republic. | the objective was to discover whether there any demonstrable relationships exist between the incidence of human tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) cases and current meteorological factors and to specify their character. epidemiological data were extracted from the epidat database (national institute of public health, prague). analyzed were a total of 4,613 tbe cases registered in the whole czech republic (1994-2001) and 4,637 cases registered in the territory of bohemia (1994-2004). meteorological da ... | 2008 | 19030891 |