New tick-borne encephalitis virus hot spot in Northern Zealand, Denmark, October 2019

Authors :: Rene Bødker
Anders Fomsgaard
Charlotte N Agergaard
Peter Henrik Andersen
Morten Rasmussen
Maiken Worsøe Rosenstierne
Source :: Eurosurveillance, Agergaard, C N, Rosenstierne, M W, Bødker, R, Rasmussen, M, Andersen, P H S & Fomsgaard, A 2019, ' New tick-borne encephalitis virus hot spot in Northern Zealand, Denmark, October 2019 ', Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, vol. 24, no. 43 . https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.43.1900639
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2019.
Abstract: During summer 2019, three patients residing by Tisvilde Hegn, Denmark were hospitalised with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) after tick bites. A new TBE virus (TBEV) micro-focus was identified in tick nymphs collected around a playground in Tisvilde Hegn forest. Estimated TBEV prevalence was 8%, higher than in endemic areas around Europe. Whole genome sequencing showed clustering to a TBEV strain from Norway. This is the second time TBEV is found in Ixodes ricinus outside Bornholm, Denmark.

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