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Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Dispatch

Travel-Related Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Israel, 2006–2014

Eyal Meltzer1Comments to Author , Yael Paran1, Yaniv Lustig, Shmuel Stienlauf, Miriam Weinberger, and Eli Schwartz
Author affiliations: Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel (E. Meltzer‚ Y. Lustig, S. Stienlauf, E. Schwartz); Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (E. Meltzer‚ S. Stienlauf, M. Weinberger, E. Schwartz); Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv (Y. Paran); Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel (M. Weinberger)

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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
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.

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