کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3398263 1222276 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis in the Baltic States at the time of political transition, independent of changes in public health practices
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروب شناسی
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Upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis in the Baltic States at the time of political transition, independent of changes in public health practices
چکیده انگلیسی

Despite evidence that socio-economic factors associated with political transition played a major causal role in the abrupt upsurge in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the newly independent Baltic States, doubts are still repeatedly expressed about the importance of these factors relative to changes in public health practices that may have affected merely the registration of cases. In response to these doubts, evidence of relevant practices of surveillance, registration, diagnosis, awareness and immunization is presented as taken from archived data and interviews with experienced medical practitioners. There were changes that could have had neutral, negative or positive impacts on recorded TBE incidence, but the variable timing in these changes at both national and regional levels is not consistent with their having been responsible for the epidemiological patterns observed in the early 1990s.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Clinical Microbiology and Infection - Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 75–80
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