Letter to the editor: The first tick-borne encephalitis case in the Netherlands: reflections and a note of caution

Jan Clement; Katrien Lagrou; Veroniek Saegeman; Piet Maes; Marc van Ranst

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Letter to the editor: The first tick-borne encephalitis case in the Netherlands: reflections and a note of caution
Jan Clement¹ , Katrien Lagrou² , Veroniek Saegeman³ , Piet Maes¹ , Marc van Ranst¹
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Affiliations: ¹ University Hospital Leuven, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium ² University Hospital Leuven, National Reference Centre for Lyme Borreliosis, Leuven, Belgium ³ University Hospital Leuven, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Leuven, Belgium

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Citation style for this article: Clement Jan, Lagrou Katrien, Saegeman Veroniek, Maes Piet, van Ranst Marc. Letter to the editor: The first tick-borne encephalitis case in the Netherlands: reflections and a note of caution. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(39):pii=30355. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.39.30355 Received: 30 Aug 2016; Accepted: 29 Sept 2016

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