Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Vaccination and Tick-borne Encephalitis, Central Europe

Franz X. Heinz

, Karin Stiasny, Heidemarie Holzmann, Marta Grgic-Vitek, Bohumir Kriz, Astrid Essl, and Michael Kundi

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (F.X. Heinz, K. Stiasny, H. Holzmann, M. Kundi); National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia (M. Grgic-Vitek); National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic (B. Kriz); and GfK Austria Healthcare, Vienna (A. Essl)

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Results of joinpoint analysis of annual incidence rates (no. cases/100,000 population) of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in A) Austria (total population), B) Austria (nonvaccinated population), C) Czech Republic, and D) Slovenia. The lines in each panel represent the piecewise log-linear relationship between year and incidence. Estimated joinpoints and their 95% CIs are shown.

Figure 2. . . Results of joinpoint analysis of annual incidence rates (no. cases/100,000 population) of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in A) Austria (total population), B) Austria (nonvaccinated population), C) Czech Republic, and D) Slovenia. The lines in each panel represent the piecewise log-linear relationship between year and incidence. Estimated joinpoints and their 95% CIs are shown.

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