V International Potsdam Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases
Berlin, 26-27 February 1999

Scientific Programme 1999

Keynote lectures

• Pathogen-tick host interaction: Borrelia burgdorferi and TBE-virus - P. A. Nuttall
• Tick-borne encephalitis virus: advances in molecular biology and vaccination strategy in the next century - F. X. Heinz

Tick-borne encephalitis (oral presentations)

• TBE - a risk factor for travellers - C. Kunz
• Survival strategy of tick-borne encephalitis virus: Cellular basis and environmental determinants - M. Labuda, S. E. Randolph
• Main features of tick-borne encephalitis eco-epidemiology in Russia - E. I. Korenberg, Y. V. Kovatevskii
• Some epidemiological data on TBE and Lyme borreliosis in Croatia - B. Borcic, B. Kaic, V. Kralj
• Pitfalls in modern TBE sero-diagnosis - H. Hotzmann
• Estimating the prevalence of infectious agents using pooled samples: biometrical considerations - U. Abel., R. Schosser, J. Süss
• Annual and seasonal variation of TBEV prevalence in ticks in selected hot spot areas in Germany using an nRT-PCR: results from 1997 and 1998 - J. Süss, C. Schrader, U. Abel, W. P. Voigt, R. Schosser
• TBE-epidemiology in Germany (1997 and 1998) - M. Fiedler, G. Jäger, R. Kaiser, M. Roggendorf
• Clinical picture of TBE; a retrospective study of 493 cases - V. Chmelik, M. Bouzkova, L. Houserova, J. Zdvorak, I. Sirkova, I. Slamova, Z.Jerhotova, R. Trnovcova, A. Chrdle, V. Cihlova, Y. Jabali, J. Becvarova

Tick-borne encephalitis (poster presentations)

• Tick-borne encephalitis and ist limmunoprophylaxis in Latvia (Summary) - A. Duks, V.Mavcutko, V. I. Kalnina
• Tick-borne encephalitis in Estonia in 1997 - 1998 (extended Summary) - V. Vasilenko, I. Golovtjova, K. Kutsar, D. Mägi, M. Olup
• Tick-borne encephalitis epidemiology in some provinces of Siberia (extended Summary) - A. M. Titenko, A. D. Botvinkin, E. I. Andaev
• Clinical diagnosis of canine tick-borne encephalitis (TBE): contribution of cerebrospinal fluid analysis (CSF) and CSF antibody titers (extended Summary) - B. Reiner, A. Fischer, T. Gödde, W. Mutter
• Foxes as indicators for TBE-endemicity - a comparative serological investigation (extended Summary) - M. A. Rieger, M. Nübling, W. Müller, H.-M. Hasselhorn, F. Hofmann
• The use of a satellite imagery to create dynamic riskmaps for tick-borne encephalitis (Summary) - S. E. Randolph, R. M. Greer
• Detection of antibodies against TBE-virus by means of western blot: confirmation of a high level of false positive ELISA results in a population with low TBE-incendence (extended Summary) - M. A. Rieger, D. Neumann-Haefelin, J.-P. Gregersen, M. Nübling, F. Hofmann
• Case report: TBE-virus infections concurrently acquired by father and son in northern Germany (extended Summary) - M. Krebs, S. Pornschlegel, B. Holdorff
• Human laminin binding protein as a cell receptor for tick-borne encephalitis virus (extended Summary) - E. V. Protopopova, A. V. Sorokin, S. N. Konovalova, A. V. Kachko, S. V. Netesov, V. B. Loktev

Lyme borreliosis (oral presentations)

• Biology, ecology and systematics of the genus Borrelia (extended Summary) - K. Kurtenbach, H. S. Sewell, S. S. Schäfer, S. de Michelis
• Lyme borreliosis in Slovenia (mini-review) - F. Strle
• Epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis in South-eastern Bavaria (extended Summary) - B. Reimer, A. Marschang, V. Fingerle, B. Wilske, R v. Sonnenburg, Ch. v. Hoecke
• Chemoprophylaxis for Lyme borreliosis? (Forum paper) - G. Stanek, O. Kahl
• Investigation of skin samples from rest foxes (vulpes vulpes) in eastern Brandenburg (Germany) for the detection of Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. (Research paper) - J. Heidrich, A. Schönberg, S. Steuber, K. Nöckler, P. Schulze, W. P. Voiqt, E. Schein
• Multiple cross-reactive self-ligands for B. burgdorferi outer surface protein A (Osp A) specific HLA-DR4-restricted T cells (Summary) - B. Maier, M. Molinger, A. P. Cope, L. Rugger, J. Schneider-Mergener, G. Sonderstrup, A. Kramer, T. Kamradt
• T-cell immunity to Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with Lyme disease (Summary) - R. Wallich, Y. Bauer, M. M. Simon, H. Hofmann
• Implications of antigenic heterogeneity for Lyme borreliosis diagnosis (extended Summary) - B. Wilske, V. Fingerle, U. Hauser, G. Lehnert, S. Jauris-Heipke
• A European multi-centre comparison of immunoblot in the serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis (extended Summary) - J. Robertson, R, Guy, N. Andrews, B. Wilske, P. Anda, M. Granström, U. Hauser, Y. Moosmann, V. Sambri, J. Schellekens, G. Stanek, J. Gray
• New avenues in the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis using molecular biology (extended Summary) - Prism, S., J.Franz, M. Rittig, G. R. Burmester, A. Krause
• Differential diagnosis in human neuroborreliosis (Summary) - H.-W. Kölmel
• A candidate OspC Lyme disease vaccine under clinical investigations (Summary) - G. Eder, N. Barrett, B. Crowe, M. Gerencer, I. Livey, A. Löw-Baselli, R. Dorner
• Lyme disease: Pathogenesis and vaccine development (mini-review) - M. M. Simon, Y. Bauer, W. Zhong, H. Hofmann, R. Wallich

Lyme borreliosis (poster presentations)

• Seasonal variations in the infestation of rodents with Ixodes ricinus Linnaeus (Acari: Ixodidae) and prevalence of Borrelia infections in a habitat of the Ilm-vallay (Thuringia, Germany) (Summary) - W. Dorn, S. Messutat, S. Kipp, A. Reldmann, U. Sunder
• Detection of reservoirs for Lyme borreliosis in the Mazury lakes districts, Poland (extended Summary) - E. Sinski, A. Pawelczyk
• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes nanus ticks from different areas of Poland (extended Summary) - J. Stanczak, B. Kubka-Biernat
• Incidence of ticks infected with B. burgdorferi in Estonia (extended Summary) - J. Prükk, E. Raukas, M. Martin, M. Ustav
• Antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsia conorii in dogs from Portugal (extended Summary) - M. S. Nuncio, F. Bacellar, A. R. Filipe
• A spatial analysis of uncertain occurrence of Lyme borreliosis (extended Summary) - P. Zeman
• Occupational risk of infections with Borrelia burgdorferi in agricultural and forestry workers (extended Summary) Grübner, I., W. Dorn, and H.-J. Mentzel: Children's Borreliosis in Thuringia (extended Summary) - M. Nübling, M. A. Rieger, W. Wangerin, S. Batsford, F.-W. Tiller, F. Hofmann
• Borrelia lymphocytoma in childhood (Summary) - A. Pohl-Koppe, B. Wilske
• Serological diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in portuguese patients: immune response to different strains of Borrelia burgdorferi (extended Summary) - M. S. Nuncio, A. R. Filipe
• Evaluation of the immune response in culture-confirmed Lyme borreliosis erythema migrans patients (extended Summary) - A. Marangoni, V. Sambri, C. Cimmino, G. Caruso, V. Mondardini, R. Cevenink
• Linear plasmide profile analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains (extended Summary) - E. Ruzic-Sabljk, F. Strle, S. Lotric-Furlan, J. Cimperman, V. Maraspin
• Visualisation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) on sections of Ixodes nanus ticks (Summary) - B. Hammer, A. Moter, O. Kahl, U. B. Göbel
• Nonmotile „rigid" spiral forms observed during cultivation of Bacillus sp. - similar to atypical forms of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (extended Summary) - S. Brem, E. Göbel, U. Busch, D. Kahlau, A. Schönberg, H. Kopp, P. Meyer

Free topics (oral presentations)

• The pigeon tick (Argas reflexus): ist biology, ecology and epidemiological aspects (research paper) - H. Dautel, S. Scheurer, and O. Kahl
• The pigeon tick (Argas reflexus): severeallergic bite reactions in humans (Summary) - J. Kleine-Tebbe, D. Herold, H. Dautel, G. Vater, A. Heinatz, J. Schroder, A. Haut, M. Mittag, J. Lange, M. Rytter, U. F. Haustein
• Ehrlichiosis and babesiosis, emerging human tick-borne diseases in Europe? (extended Summary) - M. Granström
• Blood meal identification in ticks: a promising tool in ecological research on tick-borne diseases (extended Summary) - F. Kirstein, J. S. Gray

Free topics (poster presentations)

• Comparison of main approaches to human tick-borne disease prevention (extended Summary) - I. Uspensky
• Serologic evidence of coinfection with HGE and Borrelia burgdorferi in Germany (Summary) - A. E. Levin, T. W. Tataska

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