Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an acute disease which presents itself in a diverse manner. Although named encephalitis, the nervous system is affected only in 20\u201330% of the patients. In the presence of typical clinical symptoms, the diagnosis of TBE is confirmed by specific antibodies in the blood and\/or cerebrospinal f luid. Usually, TBE is not a severe disease. However, in serious cases prompt correct diagnosis and intensive care are important.<\/p>\n
The aim of this study was to give an overview of TBE and the principles of diagnosis and treatment based on patient case analysis from Tartu University Hospital.<\/p>\n
The retrospective study included 267 cases from Tartu University Hospital over a period of 11 years (2000\u20132010). The history of tick bite was known in 61% of the cases and TBE was the initial diagnosis in 89% of the cases. The most common symptoms were fever (97%) and headache (92%). In the majority of the patients, the disease presented itself as meningitis (62%) or meningoencephalitis (25%). In 50% of the cases, specific antibodies (both IgM and IgG) were found in the serum. The diagnosis was confirmed with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) antibodies in 41% of the cases. Co-infection with Lyme\u2019s disease occurred in 15 (5%) patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an acute disease which presents itself in a diverse manner. Although named encephalitis, the nervous system is affected only in 20\u201330% of the patients. In the presence of typical clinical symptoms, the diagnosis of TBE is confirmed by specific antibodies in the blood and\/or cerebrospinal f luid. Usually, TBE is not …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-review","authors-anne-kallaste-en","authors-janika-korv-en","authors-mari-petersen-en","authors-reili-rebane-en","authors-riina-vibo-en","authors-sandra-utt-en","authors-siiri-merike-luus-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}