Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Dispatch
Travel-Related Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Israel, 2006–2014
Table 2
Calculated incidence of travel-related TBE for selected countries, Europe*
Study (source country, years of study [reference]) | Country of travel | Population studied | TBE incidence |
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Cases/tourist entries | Cases/person-weeks | Cases/100,000 travel-years | |||
Incidence of TBE disease | |||||
This study (Israel, 2006–2014) | Germany | Travelers | 1/1,634,192 | 1/697,700 | 7.5 |
Austria | Travelers | 1/732,160 | 1/393,556 | 13.2 | |
Switzerland | Travelers | 1/ 578,052 | 1/199,102 | 45.0 | |
Sweden | Travelers | 1/128,642 | 1/16,270 | 321.0 | |
Russia | Travelers | 1/855,118 | NA | NA | |
Reusken et al. (Netherlands [7]) |
Austria |
Travelers |
NA |
1/1,380,952 |
3.8 |
Incidence of TBE seroconversion | |||||
Sanchez et al. (USA [8]) | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Military personnel | NA | 1/12,501 | 416.0, 8.3† |
McNeil et al. (USA [9]) | Germany | Military personnel | NA | 1/4,775 | 1,088.9, 21.8† |
*NA, not available; TBE, tick-borne encephalitis.
†Estimated incidence of clinical disease if 98% of infections are subclinical.
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1These authors contributed equally to this article.