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List of contributing authors<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

(in alphabetical order)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Judith H. Aberle,
<\/a><\/strong>Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Stephan W. Aberle,
<\/a><\/strong>Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rahel Ackermann-G\u00e4umann,
<\/a><\/strong>Microbiologie, ADMED Analyses et Diagnostics M\u00e9dicaux, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Swiss National Reference Center for Tick-transmitted Diseases, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Heidi \u00c5hman,<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Manager Medical Lead Finland & Baltics, Pfizer Vaccines, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kristian Alfsnes,<\/a><\/strong>
Norwegian Institute of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. \u00c5shild Andreassen,<\/a><\/strong>
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Uyanga Baasandagva,<\/a><\/strong>
Epidemiologist, National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Burmaajav Badrakh,<\/a><\/strong>
Scientific Secretary of the Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences and Head of Public Health Department of “Ach” Medical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Greta B\u0103lan,<\/a><\/strong>
MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Nicolae Testemi\u0163anu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova, Microbiology and Immunology Discipline<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Pavle Banovi\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
Assist. Dr. sci. med. Pavle Banovi\u0107, Department of Microbiology with Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Diagnostics and Laboratory Research Task Force, Balkan Association for Vector-Borne Diseases, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia and Pasteur Institute Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Ljubo Barbi\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Marshall E. Bloom,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Dr. Andrea P. Costes-Perdomo<\/a><\/strong>
\n Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maja Bogdani\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, Reference Center for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Viral Zoonoses of the Croatian Ministry of Health, Department of Virology, Croatian Institute of Public Health, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Maja Travar,
<\/a><\/strong>\nVice Dean of Science and Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka; and Head of Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Clinical Center of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Petra Bogovic,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Michael Br\u00f6ker,<\/a><\/strong>
Editor, Global Health Press, Singapore \/ Marburg, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Olga Burduniuc<\/a><\/strong>,
MD, PhD, Head of Department of the Laboratory Diagnosis in Public Health, National Agency for Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Lidia Chitimia-Dobler,<\/a><\/strong>
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Iva Christova,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Microbiology, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tserennorov Damdindorj,<\/a><\/strong>
Scientific secretary in National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Alla Dashkevich,<\/a><\/strong>
State Institution \u00abRepublican Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health\u00bb, Minsk, Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Martina Del Manso,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0, Roma, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Andrey Dmitrovskiy,<\/a><\/strong>
National Center of Biotechnology, Almaty branch and Kazakh-Russian Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dobler,<\/a><\/strong>
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gillian Ellsbury,<\/a><\/strong>
Medical Director, Vaccines UK & Ireland, Pfizer Vaccines, Tadworth, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Wilhelm Erber,<\/a><\/strong>
Director Medical and Scientific Affairs, Pfizer Vaccines, Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Marjan Van Esbroeck,<\/a>
<\/strong>Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maria Sergeevna Esyunina,<\/a><\/strong>
Medical Advisor, Vaccines, Pfizer, Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anders Fomsgaard,<\/a><\/strong>
Virus R&D Laboratory, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Infectious Disease Research Unit, Clinical Institute, University of Southern Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Zane Freimane,<\/a><\/strong>
Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ernest A. Gould,<\/a><\/strong>
Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9, Marseille, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. N. Claire Gordon<\/a><\/strong>
\nUKHSA Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Steven Van Gucht,<\/a><\/strong>
Belgian Institute for Health Sciences, Brussels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heidi H. Lindstedt<\/a><\/strong>,
Senior Adviser, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Infection Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Oksana Hanenko,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Healthcare Personnel of the Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Yves Hansmann,<\/a><\/strong>
Infectious Disease Department, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.Sc. Margriet Harms,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maya Holding,<\/a><\/strong>
Virology and Pathogenesis Group, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Porton Down, United Kingdom NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ass. Prof. Adriana Hristea,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute for Infectious Diseases \u201cProf. Dr. Matei Bals\u201d, Bucharest, Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Khrystyna Hrynkevych<\/a><\/strong>,
University Hospital Essen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anu J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Virology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki University Hospital, Laboratory Services (HUSLAB), Department of Clinical Microbiology, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asst. Prof. Bernard Kai\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
Reference Center for Epidemiology of the Croatian Ministry of Health, Department of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Croatian Institute of Public Health, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jana Kerlik,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Epidemiology, Regional Public Health Authority in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Burmaa Khoroljav,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Epidemiology, National Center for Zoonotic Disease, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Iryna Kolesnikova,<\/a><\/strong>
Professor of Epidemiology, Bogomolets National Medical University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Herwig Kollaritsch,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute for Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Natalia Kolomiets,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Healthcare Personnel of the Belarusian State Medical University, Minsk, Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kuulo Kutsar,<\/a><\/strong>
Health Board, Tallinn, Estonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Andr\u00e1s Lakos,<\/a><\/strong>
Centre for Tick-borne Diseases, Outpatient Service, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Phung Lang,<\/a><\/strong>
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (formally Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine), University Zurich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mirko Lange,<\/a><\/strong>
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tinne Lernout,<\/a><\/strong>
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health Directorate, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priv.-Doz.Dr Michael Leschnik,<\/a><\/strong>
Clinical Unit of Internal Medicine Small Animals, Department and Clinic of Companion Animals and Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. \u00c5ke Lundkvist,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urusha Maharjan<\/a><\/strong>
Medical Laboratory Technologist Norwegian Institute of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anna Mazanik,<\/a><\/strong>
Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, Max Weber Foundation, Bonn, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MScPH Eszter Mezei,<\/a><\/strong>Department of Epidemiological and Vaccination Surveillance, National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest, Hungary <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Auks\u0117 Mickien\u0117,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, Medical Academy of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Anna Nagy,<\/a><\/strong>
National Reference Laboratory for Viral Zoonoses, National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Uranshagai Narankhuu,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Epidemiology, National Center for Zoonotic Disease, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tsogbadrakh Nyamdorj,<\/a><\/strong>
Director, National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Anna K. \u00d6verby,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ume\u00e5 University, Sweden
The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Ume\u00e5, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Anna Teresa Palamara,<\/a><\/strong>
Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0, 00161 Rome, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Katarzyna Pancer,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Virology, National Institute of Public Health-NIH (NIPH-NIH), Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Petr Pazdiora,<\/a><\/strong>
Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Eva Maria P\u00f6llabauer<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maja Praprotnik<\/a><\/strong>,
Nacional Institute of Public Health, Slovenija<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Martin Pfeffer,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Center for Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Raffl,<\/a><\/strong>
Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bsc. Johannes Hermanus Jozef Reimerink,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chantal B.E.M. Reusken,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Flavia Riccardo,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0, Roma, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Daniel R\u016f\u017eek,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice, Czech Republic
Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rikard Rykkvin<\/a><\/strong>,
Norwegian Institute of Public Health Senior Medical Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Savi\u0107<\/a><\/strong>,
Poultry Center, Croatian Veterinary Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Heinz-Josef Schmitt,<\/a><\/strong>
Editor-in-Chief, Global Health Press, Singapore
Strategic and Scientific Advisor, \u201cVaccelerate\u201d European Clinical Trial Consortium, Cologne University, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hannah M. Schmuck,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Center for Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of  Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ferenc Schneider,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, Markusovszky University Teaching Hospital, Szombathely, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Johann Sellner,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Neurology, Landesklinikum Mistelbach-G\u00e4nserndorf, Affiliated Department of Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Mistelbach, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Zhanna Shapiyeva,<\/a><\/strong>
Science practical Center for sanitary and epidemiological monitoring and expertise, Almaty Kazakhstan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Zoran Simonovi\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute of Public Health, Maribor, Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Olga Sofronie,<\/a><\/strong>
MD, Microbiologist, Assistant Professor, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova, Microbiology and Immunology Discipline<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Arnulf Soleng,<\/a><\/strong>
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Song Joon Young,<\/a><\/strong>
Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hein Sprong,<\/a><\/strong>
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Stevanovi\u0107<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Karin Stiasny,<\/a><\/strong>
Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Igor Stoma,<\/a><\/strong>
Gomel state medical university, Gomel, Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Maria Syrochkina,<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Medical Director Vaccines IDM, Pfizer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Valentina Tagliapietra,<\/a><\/strong>
Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all\u2019Adige, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Saravanan Thangamani,<\/a><\/strong>
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the SUNY Upstate Medical University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergey E. Tkachev,<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Scientist Researcher of Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Veronika U\u010dakar,<\/a><\/strong>
Nacional Institute of Public Health, Slovenija<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Malin Veje,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Gothenburg , Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Aur\u00e9lie Velay,<\/a><\/strong>
Institute of Virology, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rose Vikse,<\/a><\/strong>
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Oslo, Norway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Vilibi\u0107-\u010cavlek<\/a><\/strong>
National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, Reference Center for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Viral Zoonoses of the Croatian Ministry of Health, Department of Virology, Croatian Institute of Public Health, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tamara Vukovi\u0107-Jankovi\u0107,<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Medical Manager, Medical and Scientific Affairs, International Developed Markets Pfizer, Belgrade, Serbia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Yang Junfeng,<\/a><\/strong>
Medical Affairs, Pfizer Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kentaro Yoshii,<\/a><\/strong>
Laboratory of Public Health, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr. Joanna Zajkowska,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Infectious Diseases and Neuroinfections, Medical University in Bia\u0142ystok, Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Vlada Zapolskaya,<\/a><\/strong>
State Institution \u00abRepublican Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health\u00bb, Minsk, Belarus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dace Zavadska<\/a><\/strong>,<\/a>
Department of Paediatrics, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia. Department of Children Infectious Diseases, Children Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Kyra D. Zens,<\/a>
<\/strong>Department of Viral Immunobiology, Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland. Department of Public and Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Elyes Zhioua,<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Parasitology, Institute Pasteur of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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