title: Siberian subtype tickborne encephalitis virus, Finland.
abstract: We isolated 11 Siberian subtype tickborne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains from Ixodes persulcatus ticks from a TBEV-endemic focus in the Kokkola Archipelago, western Finland. Thus I. persulcatus and the Siberian TBEV are reported in a focus considerably northwest of their previously known range in eastern Europe and Siberia.
authors.affiliation: Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. anu.jaaskelainen@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Anu E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Jääskeläinen
authors.forename: Tapani
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tikkakoski
authors.forename: Nathalie Y
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Uzcátegui
authors.forename: Andrey N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Alekseev
authors.forename: Antti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vaheri
authors.forename: Olli
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Vapalahti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001179:Arthropod Vectors / Q000821:virology*; D002648:Child; D004669:Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004675:Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000821:virology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods