VIII International Potsdam Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases

Jena, 10 – 12 March, 2005

Scientific Programme

Keynotes

• Different concepts of risk - A challenge for risk communication - J. Hampel
• Clinical aspects of neuroborreliosis and post-Lyme disease syndrome in adult patients - H.-W. Pfister, T.A. Rupprecht
• Strategies for reducing the risk of Lyme borreliosis in North America - J. Piesman
• GIS, geostatistics, metadata banking, and tree-based models for data analysis and mapping in environmental monitoring and epidemiology - W.Schröder
• Parasitogenic alterations of vector behavior - G.A. Schaub

Epidemiology and ecology of tick-borne diseases: Tick-borne encepliatitis

• Risk assessment and prediction of Ixodes ricinus tick questing activity and human tick-borne encephalitis infection in space and time in the Czech Republic - M.Daniel, K. Zitek, V.Danielová, B. Kríz, J.Valter, I. Kott
• Extension of Ixodes ricinus ticks and agents of tick-borne diseases to mountain areas in the Czech Republic - V. Danielová, N.Rudenko, M.Daniel, J. Holubová, J.Materna, M. Golovchenko, L.Schwarzová
• Analysis of the long-term dynamics of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and ixodid tick-borne borrelioses (ITBB) morbidity in Russia - E. Korenberg, T. Likhacheva
• Specific clinical and epidemiological features of tick-borne encephalitis in Western Siberia - T.V. Poponnikova
• TBE incidence versus virus prevalence and increased prevalence of the TBE virus in Ixodes ricinus removed from humans - J. Süss, C.Klaus, R. Diller, C. Schrader, N. Wohanka, U. Abel
• Seriological evidence for tick-borne encephalitis, borreliosis, and human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Mongolia - G. Walter, E.Lkhamsuren, A. Shagdar, J. Bataa, T. Batmunkh, D. Orth, F.X. Heinz, G.A. Danichova, M.A. Khasnatinov, R. Würzner, M.P.Dierich
• Tick-borne encephalitis in the Baltic States: Identifying risk factors in space and time - D. Sumolio, A. Bormane, L Asokliene, I. Lucenko, V. Vasilenko, S. Randolph
• Seroprevalence of tick-borne and mosquito-borne arboviruses in European brown hares in Northern and Western Germany - G. Dobler, R. Wölfel, H. Schmüser, S. Essbauer, M. Pfeffer
• EDEN - Emerging diseases in a changing European environment: Tick-borne diseases - S. Randolph
• Cows as indicators for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) endemic regions: Suitability of testing for antibodies in serum and milk - R. Leutloff, M. Nübling, D.Neumann-Haefelin, M.A. Rieger
• Summary of tick-borne encephalitis surveillance results and implementation of case definition in Poland - P. Stefanoff, A. Zielinski, M. Eidson, D.L. Morse

Epidemiology and ecology of tick-borne diseases: Lyme borreliosis

• Functionality of Borrelia burgdorferi LuxS: The Lyme disease spirochete produces and response to the pheromone autoinducer-2 and lacks a complete activated-methyl cycle - K. von Kackum, K. Babb, S.P. Riley, R.L. Wattier, T. Bykowski, B. Stevenson
• Determining the tick scutal index allows assessment of tick feeding duration and estimation of infection risk with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a person bitten by an Ixodes ricinus nymph - T. Meiners, B. Hammer, U.B. Göbel, O. Kahl
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. OspA types in Ixodes ricinus ticks from selected localities in Slovakia and Poland - D. Lencaková, C. Hizo-Teufel, B.Petko, U. Schulte-Spechtel, M. Stanko, B. Wilske, V. Fingerle
• Heterogeneity in prevalence and genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in different localities in Thuringia, Germany - S. Kipp, W. Dorn, B. Wilske, V. Fingerle
• OspC of Borrelia afzelii is crucial for dissemination in the vector as shown by transformation and complementation of a European OspC-dificient B. afzelii strain - G. Goettner, L. Gern, U. Shulte-Spechtel, W. Wilske, V. Fingerle
• Role of birds in Thuringia, Germany, in the natural cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the Lyme disease spirochaete - S. Kipp, A. Goedecke, W. Dorn, B. Wilske, V. Fingerle
• Detection of animal reservoirs of tick-borne zoonoses in Europe - B. Pichon, A. Astrada-Pena, O. Kahl, A. Mannelli, J.S. Gray

Epidemiology and ecology of tick-borne diseases: Babesiosis, anaplasmosis, tickettsiosis

• Identity of casual agents of human babesiosis in Europe - J.S. Gray
• Babesia microti: Prevalence in wild rodents and Ixodes ricinus ticks from the Mazury Lakes District of north-eastern Poland - E. Sinski, A. Bajer, R. Welc, A. Pawelczyk, M. Ogrzewalska, J.M. Behnke
• Detection of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae in Dermacentor reticulatus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Poland - J.Stanczak
• Evidence for an increased geographical distribution of Dermacentor reticulatus in Germany and detection of Rickettsia sp. RpA4 - H. Dautel, C. Dippel, R. Oehme, K. Hartelt, E. Schettler
• Isolation of Spiroplasma sp. from an Ixodes tick - K. Henning, S. Greiner-Fischer, M. Hotzel, M. Ebsen, D. Theegarten
• Different sequence types of the ank gene of Anaplasma phagocytpphilum - S. Schauer, Y. Kern, M. Petrovec, A. Grzeszcuk, S. Stuen, A. Garcia-Perez, G. Liebisch, A. Kehl, A. Ansser, C. Bogdan, F.D. von Loewnich
• Genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Norway - S.Stuen, T. Moum, M. Petrovec, L.M. Schouls
• Human granulocytic anaplasmosis: Risk in the Cisural region, Russia - M.V. Afanasieva, N.N. Vorobyeva, E.I. Korenberg, V.I. Frizen
• Tick morphology, tick microbiocenosis, and the ability to accumulate tick-borne phatogens as a result of anthropogenic pressure? - A.N. Alekseev, H.V. Dubinina, P.A. Chirov
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Coxiella burnetii in ticks collected in different biocenoses in the Republic of Moldova - A. Movila, I. Uspenskaia, I. Toderas, V. Melnic, J. Conovalov

Pathogenesis, prophylaxis, and vaccination

• Structure function mapping of BbCRASP-1, the key complement factor H and FHL-1 binding protein of Borrelia burgdorferi - F.S. Cordes, P. Kraiczy, P. Roversi, M.M. Simon, V. Brade, O. Jahraus, R. Wallis, L. Goodstadt, C.P. Ponting, C. Skerka, P.F.Zipfel, R. Wallich, S.M. Lea
• Borrelia burgdorferi erp genes are expressed at different levels within tissues of cronically infected mammalian hosts - J.C. Miller, B. Stevenson
• Intranasal immunization with inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus and the antigenic peptide 89-119 protects mica against intraperitoneal challenge - E. Goncharova, E. Ryzhikov, V. Poryvaev, L. Bulychev, N. Karpyshev, A. Maksyutov, A.B. Tyzhikov
• Persistence of antibodies after vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis - R. Rendi-Wagner, O. Zent, W. Jilg, A. Plentz, J. Beran, H. Kollaritsch
• Response to tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) booster vaccination after prolonged time intervals to primary immunization with the rapid schedule - I. Schödorf, C. Schönfeld, U. Nicolay, O. Zent, A. Banzhoff
• Immunogenicity and safety of FSME-IMMUN 0.5ml using a rapid immunization schedule - A. Loew-Baselli, E.M. Poellabauer, S. Fritsch, M. Koska, N. Vartian, C. Himly, P. Harmacek, F. Maritsch, B. Pavlova, H. Ehrlich
• Open-label, phase III clinical study of a modified tick-borne encephalitis vaccine: Evaluation of safety and immunogenecity in children and adolescents aged 1-15 years - E.M. Poellabauer, S. Fritsch, M. Miloits, A. Loew-Baselli, B.G. Pavlova, V. Empson, F. Maritsch, R. Konior, U. Behre, H.J. Ehrlich, for the FSME IMMUN Pediatric Study Group
• Potential risk of pathogen transmission by acaricide-poisoned ticks - I. Uspensky, I. Ioffe-Uspensky
• A new clothing impregnation method for personal protection against ticks and biting insects - M. Faulde, W. Uedelhoven
• Laboratory testing of the insect repellents IR 3535® and DEET against Phlebotomus mascittii and P. duboscqi (Diptera: Psychodidae) - T.J. Naucke, S. Lorentz, H.-W. Grünewald

Diagnosis, clinics, and therapy

• Risk of culture-confirmed borrelial persistence in patients treated for erythema migrants and possible mechanisms of resistance - K.-P.Hunfeld, E. Ruzic-Sabljic, D.E. Norris, P. Kraiczy, F. Strle
• Etiology of tick-borne febrile illnesses in adult residents of north-eastern Poland: Report from a prospective clinical study - Grzeszcuk, S. Ziarko, O. Kavalchuk, J. Stanczak
• Molecular analysis of decorin-binding protein A (DbpA) reveals five major groups among European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains with impact for the development of serological assays and indicated lateral gene transfer of the dbpA gene - U. Schulte-Specht, V. Fingerle, G. Goettner, S. Rogge, W. Wilske
• Comparison of isolation rate of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in MKP and BSK-II medium - E. Ruzic-Sabljic, S. Lotric-Furlan, V. Maraspin, J. Cimperman, M. Logar, T. Jurca, F. Strle
• Survey on the subject of equine Lyme borreliosis - Y. Gall, K. Pfister
• Activity of lysosomal exoglycosidases in the serum of patients with chronic Lyme Arthritis - S.A. Pancewicz, P. Wielgat, T. Hermanowska-Szpakowicz, M. Kondrusik, J. Zajkowska, S. Grygorczuk, J. Popko, K. Zwierz
• Comparison of immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and enzyme immuno assay (EIA) for borrelial antibody detection in patients with signs and symptoms suggesting neuroborreliosis - T. Cerar, E. Ruzic-Sabljic, J. Cimperman, F. Strle
• Improvement of Lyme borrelios serodiagnosis by a new recombinant IgG and IgM line immunoblot - G. Goettner, U. Schulte-Spechtel, G. Liegl, B. Wilske, V. Fingerle
• Comparison of a new line assay using purified and recombinant antigens with a European lysate blot for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis - H. Hofmann, R. Wallich, I. Lorenz, M. Bechtel
• Laboratory diagnosis of early Lyme borreliosis - comparison of ELISA, Western blot (EcoLine), and PCR results - J. Zajkowska, M. Kondrusik, S. Andrej Pancewicz, I. Sienkiewicz, S. Grygorczuk, R. Swierzbinska, T. Hermanowska-Szpakowicz
• Serological diagnosis and follow-up of asymptomatic and acute Q fever infections - C. Wagner-Wiening, S. Brockmnann, P. Kimmig
• Human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Austria: Epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory findings in five consecutive patients from Tyrol, Austria - G. Walder, D. Fuchs, M. Sarcletti, K. Berek, B. Falkensammer, K. Huber, M. Petrovec, M.P. Dietrich, R. Würzner
• Serological evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection among patients hospitalized with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) - M. Kondrusik, J. Zajkowska, S.A. Panceiczk, S. Grygorczuk, T. Hermanowska-Szpakowicz
• Abducens nerve palsy following a tick bite: A case report - S. Frimmel, M. Löbermann, B. Buxton, E.C. Reisinger