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TBE Milestones

1976 Christian Kunz:
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Pioneer of the first TBE vaccine for general use

1938 Evgeny Pavlovsky:
First scientist to document the way of transmission
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of the TBEV

1937 Lev Alexandrovich Zil‘ber:
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First scientist to isolate the TBEV

1931 Hans Schneider:
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First description of the clinical aspects of TBE

100 million years old: 10,000 years old: 20th century
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ticks TBE virus

Note:
1. Tick in Burmese amber, about 100 million years old. Credit: Dr. Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
2. TBEV under electron microscope. Credit: PD Dr. Sandra Essbauer, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
3. Cover of the book The epidemic acute “meningitis serosa”, written by Hans Schneider and published by Maudrich Verlag, Vienna, 1932
4. Lev Zilber. Photo from the book Lev Alexandrovich Zilber written by his son L.L. Kiselev and E.S. Levina, published in 2005 by the publishing
house Science in the series “Scientific biographies“
5. Evgeny Pavlovsky. Credit: Laboratory of Parasitology, Zoological Institute RAS
6. Christian Kunz. Credit: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gerhard Dobler, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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