VII International Potsdam Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases
Berlin, 13 – 14 March, 2003
Scientific Programme
Is the incidence of tick-borne
iseases on the increase in Europe?
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Evidence that climate change has caused
‘emergence’ of tick-borne diseases in
Europe?
- Sarah E. Randolph
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Global climate change and the
emergence/re-emergence of infectious
diseases
- Roland Zell
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Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Europe
- Franc Strle
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Vectors of tick-borne diseases and epidemiological situation in latvia in 1993–2002
- Antra Bormane, Irina Lucenko, Arnis Duks, Violeta Mavtchoutko,
Renate Ranka, Kristine Salmina and Viesturs Baumanis
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A tick-borne encephalitis ceiling in Central Europe has moved upwards during the last 30 years: Possible impact of global warming
- Petr Zeman and Cestmir Benes
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An attempt to elucidate the increased incidence of tick-borne encephalitis and its spread to higher altitudes in the Czech Republic
- Milan Daniel, Vlasta Danielová, Bohumír Kríz and Ivan Kott
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Socio-economic conditions and other anthropogenic factors influencing tick-borne encephalitis incidence in the Czech Republic
- B. Kriz, C. Benes, V. Danielová and M. Daniel
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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Germany — Epidemiological data, development of risk areas and virus prevalence in field-collected ticks and in ticks removed from humans
- Jochen Süss, Christina Schrader, Ulrich Falk and Nikolaus Wohanka
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Problems in the study and prophylaxis of mixed infections transmitted by ixodid ticks
- Edward I. Korenberg
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Pathogens and symbionts in ticks: prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Ehrlichia sp.), Wolbachia sp., Rickettsia sp., and Babesia sp. in Southern Germany
- Kathrin Hartelt, Rainer Oehme, Henning Frank, Stefan O. Brockmann,
Dieter Hassler and Peter Kimmig
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Zoonotic Babesia: Possibly emerging pathogens to be considered for tick-infested humans in central Europe
- K.-P. Hunfeld and V. Brade
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First report on the coexistence and compatibility of seven tickborne pathogens in unfed adult Ixodes persulcatus Schulze (Acarina: Ixodidae)
- Andrey N. Alekseev, Helen V. Dubinina and Olga V. Jushkova
Epidemiology of tick-borne diseases
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Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in questing ticks from mainland Portugal
- Susana Baptista, Ana Quaresma, Tânia Aires, Klaus Kurtenbach,
Margarida Santos-Reis, Matthew Nicholson and Margarida Collares-Pereira
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Biodiversity in canine babesiae: molecular and epidemiological investigations
Ecology of tick-borne diseases
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Reservoir host identification by analysis of host-seeking ticks
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Geographical and seasonal variation in detecting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in rodents of North East Austria
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Increased expression of Borrelia burgdorferi factor H-binding surface proteins during transmission from ticks to mice
- Jennifer C. Miller and Brian Stevenson
Prophylaxis and vaccination
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Randomized, phase II, multicenter dose-finding studies of a modified tick-borne encephalitis vaccine in children: Evaluation of safety and immunogenicity of two vaccinations with FSME-IMMUN®
- H.J. Ehrlich, A. Löw-Baselli, E.M. Poellabauer, S. Fritsch, I. Mai,
B.G. Pavlova, F. Maritsch, F. Dorner, U. Behre, P.N. Barrett
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Safety and immunogenicity of FSME-IMMUN® ‘new’ vs. Encepur® in adults
- A. Löw-Baselli, S. Fritsch, B.G. Pavlova, E.M. Poellabauer,
P. Harmacek, M. Krammer, F. Dorner, R. Konior, P.N. Barrett,
H.J. Ehrlich, IMMUN for the FSME-Adult Study Group
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Long-term immunity after vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis with Encepur® using the rapid vaccination schedule
- Jiri Beran, Petr Douda, Dieter Gniel and Olaf Zent
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TBE booster immunization in adults — first experience with a new tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine, free of protein-derived stabilizer
- Olaf Zent, Tino F. Schwarz, Annelie Plentz, Angelika Banzhoff and
Wolfgang Jilg
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Stimulation of the immune system by different TBE-virus vaccines
- Egon Marth, Barbara Kleinhappl and Sandra Jelovcan
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Decreasing tick-borne disease risk in the US by intervening in the natural cycle: lessons from the woods thus far
- J. Tsao, B. Brei, D. Fish
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Lyme disease vaccine in the US and Europe: public and medial disputes discredit a well-founded and most successful protection strategy
- R. Wallich, M. Simon
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State-of-the-art serological techniques for detection of antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus
- Karen Sonnenberg, Matthias Niedrig, Katja Steinhagen, Edda Rohwäder,
Wolfgang Meyer, Wolfgang Schlumberger, Ewald Müller-Kunert and
Winfried Stöcker
Lyme borreliosis:
immunology, diagnostics, and therapy; B. burgdorferi s. l.
strain differentiation
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Immunological characterization of the complement regulator factor H-binding CRASP and Erp proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi
- Peter Kraiczy, Kristina Hartmann, Jens Hellwage, Christine Skerka,
Michael Kirschfink, Volker Brade, Peter F. Zipfel, Reinhard Wallich and
Brian Stevenson
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Significant improvement of the recombinant Borrelia IgG immunoblot for serodiagnosis of early neuroborreliosis
- Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel, Gisela Lehnert, Gaby Liegl, Volker Fingerle,
Christiane Heimerl, Barbara Johnson and Bettina Wilske
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Disappearance of specific immune response after successful therapy of chronic Lyme borreliosis
- Dieter Hassler, Matthias Schnauffer, Hans Ehrfeld and Elke Müller
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Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. OspA-types are widespread in Bavaria but show distinct local patterns
- V. Fingerle, H. Michel, G. Hettche, C. Hizo-Teufel and B. Wilske
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The zoonotic reservoir of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Mazury Lakes district of North-Eastern Poland
- Agnieszka Pawelczyk, Maria Ogrzewalska, Iwona Zadrozna, and
Edward Sinski
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Heterogeneity of the immunodominant surface protein VlsE among the three genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi pathogenic for human
- Gereon Göttner, Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel and Bettina Wilske
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Serological description of Estonian patients with Lyme disease, a comparison with control sera from endemic and non-endemic areas
- Kai E. Kisand, Meeme Utt, Kalle V. Kisand, Tiina Prükk and Raivo Uibo
Other topics
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Is leishmaniasis becoming endemic in Germany?
- T.J. Naucke and C. Schmitt
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Test systems for tick repellents
- Hans Dautel
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Closing remark
- Jochen Süss