Diseases

Tick-Borne Encephalitis

Encephalitis caused by neurotropic viruses that are transmitted via the bite of TICKS. In Europe, the diseases are caused by ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE, which give rise to Russian spring-summer encephalitis, central European encephalitis, louping ill encephalitis, and related disorders. Powassan encephalitis occurs in North America and Russia and is caused by the Powassan virus. ASEPTIC MENINGITIS and rarely encephalitis may complicate COLORADO TICK FEVER which is endemic to mountainous regions of the western United States. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1996, Ch26, pp14-5)

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Encephalitis caused by neurotropic viruses that are transmitted via the bite of TICKS. In Europe, the diseases are caused by ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE, which give rise to Russian spring-summer encephalitis, central European encephalitis, louping ill encephalitis, and related disorders. Powassan encephalitis occurs in North America and Russia and is caused by the Powassan virus. ASEPTIC MENINGITIS and rarely encephalitis may complicate COLORADO TICK FEVER which is endemic to mountainous regions of the western United States. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1996, Ch26, pp14-5)

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  • Encephalitis, Tick-Borne
  • Encephalitis, Tick Borne
  • Tick Borne Encephalitis
  • Central European Encephalitis
  • Encephalitis, Central European
  • Encephalitis, European Tick-Borne
  • Encephalitis, Far Eastern Russian
  • Encephalitis, Louping Ill
  • Encephalitis, Russian Spring-Summer
  • European Tick-Borne Encephalitis
  • Far Eastern Russian Encephalitis
  • Louping Ill Encephalitis
  • Powassan Encephalitis
  • Powassan Virus Disease
  • Russian Spring-Summer Encephalitis
  • Disease, Powassan Virus
  • Encephalitis, European Tick Borne
  • Encephalitis, Powassan
  • Encephalitis, Russian Spring Summer
  • European Tick Borne Encephalitis
  • Powassan Encephalitides
  • Powassan Virus Diseases
  • Russian Spring Summer Encephalitis
  • Spring-Summer Encephalitis, Russian
  • Tick-Borne Encephalitis, European
  • Virus Disease, Powassan
  • Virus Diseases, Powassan

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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1968(1966)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Tick-Borne Encephalitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004675. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004675
  2. Tick-Borne Encephalitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis
  3. Tick-Borne Encephalitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326663