VI International Potsdam Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases

Berlin, 26 – 27 April, 2001

Scientific Programme

Characterization of natural TED foci: different approaches

• Predicting the risk of tick-borne diseases - S. Randolph
• Detection, characterization, and prediction of tick-borne disease foci - M. R. Cortinas, M. A. Guerra, C. J. Jones, U. Kitron
• Five-Year-Survey on the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus ticks, on tick density and clinical cases of Lyme borreliosis in an endemic area of Switzerland - L. Gern, J.-L. Perret, F. Gremion, E. Guigoz, O. Rais, Y. Moosmann
• Foci of tick-borne diseases in Southwest Germany - R, Oehme, K. Kartell, H. Backe, S. Brockmann, P. Kimmig
• TBE foci in Switzerland (original article) - T. Krech
• Characterization of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) foci in Germany and Latvia (1997-2000) - J. Süss, Ch. Schrader, U. Abel, A. Bormane, A. Duks, V. Kalnina
• Tick-borne encephalitis virus foci in Slovakia - M. Labuda, E. Eleckova, M. Lickova, A. Sabo
• Studies on TBE epidemiology in Finland (and Lithuania) - X. Han, M. Aho, S. Vene, M. Brummer-Korvenkontio, A. Juceviciene, P. Leinikki, A. Vaheri, O. Vapalahti
• Occurrence of TBE in areas previously considered being non-endemic: Scandinavian data generate an international study by the ISW-TBE - M. Haglund

Special issues on TBE (oral presentations)

• Vaccination against TBE in Austria: The success story continues - Ch. Kunz
• Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Germany and clinical course of the disease - R. Kaiser
• TBE in Denmark - in particular on Bornholm - K. Kristiansen

Tick-borne diseases in animals (oral presentations)

• Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in dogs - M. W. Leschnik, G. C. Kirtz, J. G. Thalhammer
• Birds and Borrelia - P.-F. Humair
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and other passerine birds (oral presentations) - A. Kaiser, A. Seitz, O. Strub
• Horses and Borrelia: Immunoblot patterns with five Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains and sera from horses of various stud farms in Austria and from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna - I. Müller, G. Khanakah, M. Kundi, G.Stanek
• A new non-species dependent ELISA for detection of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in zoo-animals - K. Stöbel, A. Schönberg, Ch. Staak
• Granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Swedish dogs and horses - E. Olsson Engvall, A. Egenvall
• Ehrlichiosis in Ixodes ricinus and wild mammals - J.S. Liz

Babesiosis (oral presentations)

• Zoonotic babesiosis - J.Gray, L.-V. von Stedingk, M. Granström

Lyme borreliosis I: Clinical Medicine, Diagnostics and Therapy (oral presentations)

• Microbial diagnosis in Lyme borreliosiS - B. Wilske
• Evidence of a Lyme borreliosis infection from the viewpoint of laboratory medicine - R. Lange, S. Seyyedi
• Standardised in vitro susceptibility testing of Borrelia burgdorferi against well-known and newly developed antimicrobial agents - Possible implications for new therapeutic approaches to Lyme disease - K.-P. Hunfeld, P. Kraiczy, E. Kekoukh, V. Schafer, V. Brade
• Treatment of Lyme borreliosis - State of the art - R. Kaiser

Lyme borreliosis II: Immunology/Vaccination (oral presentations)

• Lyme disease vaccine: The United States' experience - D. T. Dennis
• Immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi: Insufficient killing of the pathogens by complement and antibody - P. Kraiczy, Ch. Skerka, M. Kirschfink, P. F. Zipfel, V. Brade
• Prophylactic vaccination against Lyme borreliosis for man and dogs and new strategies to treat established B. burgdorferi infections - R. Wallich, O. Jahraus, M.H.Simon

Lyme borreliosis III: ecology (oral presentations)

• The key roles of selection and migration in the ecology of Lyme borreliosis - K. Kurtenbach, S. De Michelis, H.-S. Sewell, S. Etti. St. M. Schäfer, E. Holmes, R. Hails, M. Collares-Pereira, M. Santos-Reis, K. Hanincova, M. Labuda, A. Bormane, M. Donaghy

Free topics (oral presentations)

• The dog factor in brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari:Ixodidae) infestations in and near human dwellings - I. Uspensky, I. Ioffe-Uspensky
• Transmission studies of a European Sindbis virus in the floodwater mosquito Aedes vexans (Diptera: Culicidae) - M. Modlmaier, R. Kuhn, O.-R. Kaaden, M. Pfeffer

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TBE: Clinical Medicine, Diagnostics, and Prophylaxis (poster presentations)

• In vitro study of plasmid DNA delivery systems for mucosal immunization against TEE - E. P. Goncharova, L. E. Bulychev, A. A. Sizov, V. D. Poryvaev, L. I. Karpenko, A. A. Ilyichev, A. B. Ryzhikov
• Development of technology of tick-borne encephalitis vaccine (strain 205) - I. Krassilnikov, I. Mischenko, O. Sharova, M. Vorobjova
• Design of recombinant antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus - N. Tikunova, G. Nikolenko, T. Un, E. Protopopova, S. Konovalova, L. Karpenko, V. Loktev, A. Ilyichev
• Diagnostic value of detection of TBE virus DNA and specific immunoglobulins in patients with different clinical forms of the disease - O. N. Grishaeva, L. 0. Chernitsyna, M. P. Grishaev, N. V. Mychka
• Molecular mechanisms of tick-borne encephalitis virus persistence in tissue cultures - O. V. Morozova, T. G. Maksimova, V. A. Matveeva, S. A. Korobova, V. N. Bakhvalova

TBE: Ecology and Epidemiology (poster presentations)

• Antibodies to arboviruses in cattle as an indicator of virus activity - A. M. Titenko, S. V. Bachum, T. I. Borisova, E. I. Andaev, A. D. Botvinkin, B. V. Rudnic, J. A. Kolunov
• TBE in Lithuania; epidemiological aspects and laboratory diagnosis - D. Vaisviliene, V. Kilciauskiene, M. Zygutiene, L. Asokliene, S. Caplinskas
• TBE foci in Estonia - V. Vasilenko, I. Golovljova, K. Kutsar, A. Jogiste, A. Plyusnin, A. Lundkvist
• Natural foci of tick-borne encephalitis and prerequisites for their existence - V. Danielova
• Tick-borne diseases in the Lake Baikal region - A. M. Titenko, A. D. Botvinkin, E. I. Andaev

Ehrlichiosis (poster presentations)

• HGE antibodies in sera of patients with TBE in the Czech Republic - P. Zeman, P. Pazdiora, J. Cinatl
• Seroprevalence of antibodies against the agent of the "Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis" (HGE) in high risk populations of foresters in the Federal Laender of Hesse (northern part), Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany - J. Bätzing-Feigenbaum, H.Brenner, G. Kaltischnigg, H. Rüden, T. Talaska
• Ehrlichiosis, Ixodes ticks and migratory birds - A. N. Alekseev, H. V. Dubinina

Lyme borreliosis: Ecology (poster presentations)

• Coinfection of Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) in northern Poland with the agents of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) - J. Stanczak, M. Racewicz, W. Kruminis-Lozowska, B. Kubica-Biernat
• Long-term records of main epizootic parameters in East-European mixed natural foci of tick-borne infections - E. I. Korenberg, Y. V. Kovalevskii, N. B. Gorelova
• Different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato dominate in Ixodes persulcatus ticks in West Siberia and Far East, Russia - A. B. Beklemishev, A. K. Dobrotvorsky, N. N. Livanova, I. D. Ivanov, A. V. Piterina, L. I. Ivano
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochaetes in some passerine bird species from north-eastern Poland - A.Gryczynska
• The bank vole [Clethrionomys glareolus) as a natural reservoir for Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in the northern part of Poland - A. Pawelczyk, E. Sinski
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the selected Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) population in Weilburg forests, Hesse, Germany - J. Stariczak, G. Okroy-Rysop, M. Racewicz, B. Kubica-Biernat, W. Kruminis-Lozowska
• DNA sequence analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato isolates recovered from Ixodes nanus ticks collected in Marburg - P. Scharpenack, G. A. Meyer, M. Eickmann, K. Machalke, W. Slenczka
• Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato transmission from tick vector to host: Experimental evidence of the involvement of the larval stage of Ixodes ricinus - B. Hammer, T. Meiners, A. Marangoni, V. Sambri, U. B. Göbel, O. Kahl
• Ecoepidemiology of Borrelia spp. on Madeira island, Portugal - M. S. Nuncio, L. M. Schouls, I. van de Pool, V. Almeida, A. R. Filipe

Lyme borreliosis: Epidemiology (poster presentations)

• Frequency of contact with ticks and pathogenic effects of such contacts in forestry workers of north-eastern Poland - K. Bialowas, Z. Jablonowski
• Seroprevalence of Borrelia infection in occupational tick-exposed people in Bavaria (Germany) - B. Reimer, B. Erbas, K. Lobbichler, R. Truckenbrodt, U. Gartner-Kothe, N. Kapeller, M. Hansen, V. Fingerle, B. Wilske, F. v. Sonnenburg
• Seroprevalence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi s. I. and tick-borne encephalitis virus in the Bergische Land region of Northrhine Westfalia - M. A. Rieger, M. Nübling, S. Heß, S. Batsford, F. Hofmann
• Seroprevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi s. I. in two adjacent regions of eastern France and southwestern Germany - M. Nübling, M. A. Rieger, S. Batsford, M. Wagner, E. Wertenschlag, F. Hofmann
• Data on human-biting Ixodes ricinus ticks in a region of Thuringia (Germany) - W. Dorn, Ch. Flügel, I. Grübner
• Risk factors in Lyme borreliosis: a German case-control study - J. Fitzner, A. Ammon, I. Bautmann, T. Talaska, A. Schönberg, K. Stöbel, V. Fingerle, B. Wilske, L.Petersen

Lyme borreliosis: Immunology, Clinical Medicine, and Diagnostics (poster presentations)

• Dissemination and dynamics of outer surface protein expression of different Borrelia burgdorferi s. L strains in artificially infected Ixodes ricinus nymphs - V. Fingerle, S. Rauser, L. Gern, B. Hammer, C. Heimerl, O. Kahl, U. Schulte-Spechtel, B. Wilske
• Modulation of cytokine release in ex vivo stimulated blood from borreliosis patients - I. Diterich, L. Härter, D. Hassler, A. Wendel, T. Hartung
• Prevalence of B. burgdorferi strains by applying the microgen immunoblots - A. Griskevicius, V. Lipnickiene, S. Caplinskas
• Elaboration of an ELISA-based test for Lyme disease - I. D. Ivanov, V. S. Karavaev, A. B. Beklemishev
• Neuroborreliosis in Bulgaria - I. Christova, E. Tasseva
• Infections after tick-bites in transplanted patients: Borreliosis and Babesiosis - D. Habedank, B. Habedank

Babesiosis (poster presentations)

• Babesia microti - an emerging pathogen in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany)? - T. Falaska, J. Bätzing-Feigenbaum, E. Schein

Free Topics (poster presentations)

• Tick synusia and persistence of natural foci of tularemia in endemic region of central Europe - V. Vyrostekova, D. Gurycova, E. Kocianova, J. Rehacek, G. Stanek
• Evaluation of an in vivo peritoneal chamber implant model in rats for the growth of Borrelia anserina Ni-NL - A. Marangoni, L. Giacani, V. Sambri, E. Storni, R. Cevenini
• Prevalence of TBE antibodies in serum and CSF of dogs with inflammatory and non-inflammatory CNS disease - B. Reiner, S. GrasmÜck, F. Steffen, N. Djuric, T. Schindler, W. MÜller, A. Fischer
• Coiling phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi by primary human macrophages is controlled by CDC42Hs and Rac1 and involves recruitment of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome protein and Arp2/3 complex - C. Heimerl, S. Linder, V. Fingerle, M. Aepfelbacher, B. Wilske
• Variation in tick infestation rate in passerine birds - O. Strub, A. Seitz, A. Kaiser