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Chapter 12b: TBE in Bulgaria
Table 2: TBE reporting and vaccine prevention in Bulgaria
TBE reporting is mandatory since 2014.
Both physicians and laboratory report.
Mandatory TBE reporting
EU case definitions for confirmed, probable, and possible
TBE case are accepted.
Other TBE surveillance No
Special clinical features Bi-phasic disease
Available vaccines No information available
Vaccination recommendations and
No
reimbursement
Vaccine uptake by age group/risk No information available
group/general population
National reference laboratory of vector-borne pathogens
at the National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases,
Name, address/website of TBE NRC
Sofia, Bulgaria
www.ncipd.org
Figure 1: Burden of TBE in Bulgaria over time
Case reporting is sporadic and thus incidences cannot be calculated.
Here only microbiologically confirmed cases are mentioned.
Case numbers by year are listed in the appendix.
n.c. = not calculable
Latest raw data can be found at https://id-ea.org/tbe/tbe12b5/#data1
Age and gender distribution of TBE in Bulgaria
No table can be provided, the number of cases too low to give any meaningful interpretation.
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