Epidemiological situation of tick-borne encephalitis in the European Union and European Free Trade Association countries
Report from a project commissioned by the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (in English)
Authors
Paweł Stefanoff, Natalia Parda, Aleksandra Polkowska, Fortunato D’Ancona, Pedro Anda, Annapaola Rizzoli, Rachel Escudero, Elena Kocianová, Oliver Donoso-Mantke, Maria Kazimirova, Emőke Ferenczi, Luisa Sánchez Serrano, Joanna Zajkowska, Sarah Randolph.
Bibliography
Epidemiological situation of tick-borne encephalitis in the European Union and European Free Trade Association countries. Published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, 2012.
ISBN
978-92-9193-384-6
When the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published a call for tender to produce this guidance, I contacted several experts in the different networks and we decided to apply together. For the first time I was leading an international collaborative project of this size. We developed a survey on existing surveillance systems for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), and asked countries to provide surveillance data. We received responses from 100% countries and surveillance data from most of them! As the result of the project, we produced a robust report, which served as foundation of the subsequent implementation of European TBE surveillance few years later :)