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Chapter 7: TBE in special situations
infection with a short incubation period, while There is evidence that TBEV is stable in milk
the mother had been infected by a tick bite. and cheese for up to 14 days, depending on
Therefore, breast-feeding females should be environmental conditions. 20,21 At 4°C TBEV
cautious when being exposed to ticks in TBE- might remain viable up to 14 days, while at
endemic regions. room temperature virus titres decrease after
20
some days. There is evidence that the
Figure 2: Travel targets/100 travellers in German travellers for 2017
(modified after Zukunft Aktuell 276, 39. Jg., 07.02.2018, green bars indicate “TBEV not known to circulate”,
red bars indicate TBEV-endemic countries. Taken from: https://www.stiftungfuerzukunftsfragen.de/
newsletter-forschung-aktuell/276.html).
Figure 3: Percentage of travel-associated TBE cases in German patients
Compilation of data from the Epidemiologisches Jahrbuch 2007 to 2018, RKI.
Note that the X-axis starts at 91%.
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