Tick-borne encephalitis: rounding out the picture

FX Heinz

doi:10.2807/ese.13.17.18844-en

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Tick-borne encephalitis: rounding out the picture
FX Heinz¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Institute of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Citation style for this article: Heinz FX. Tick-borne encephalitis: rounding out the picture. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(17):pii=18844. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.17.18844-en Received: 21 Apr 2008

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Abstract

What is now known as tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) was first recognised as a distinct disease entity in 1931 in Europe by H. Schneider and described as 'meningitis serosa epidemica' of unknown etiology. A disease with similar clinical symptoms was reported in the Far East in 1934 and briefly thereafter - in 1937 - the etiologic agent was isolated in Russia and its transmission by ticks could also be demonstrated.