Aug 18, 2021
Department of Virology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has been the National Reference lab for Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE virus) since 2008. The reference lab is divided into a routine and a research lab group. The NS1 TBE research group... Aug 3, 2021
Heterogeneity in virus populations and immunosuppression of the host could cause tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccine failures. These are the results of a study recently published in Microorganism by the Karganova group, the TBFVnet partner from Moscow. The only... Jul 1, 2021
Viruses don’t care about human geographical borders. The coronavirus pandemic made it clear how fast even great distances can be covered by viruses within days. The same is also true for tick-borne diseases and, in particular, for flaviviruses. Tick-borne flaviviruses... Apr 23, 2021
You may have heard about the book Spillover by David Quammen. In a nutshell, this fascinating book describes how diseases can emerge from animals and spread to humans. An entire chapter is dedicated to the story of Lyme disease, a disease caused by a bacterium. Lyme... Dec 16, 2020
The TBFVnet project represents a network of laboratories that aim to study and survey tick-borne flaviviruses, involving six institutes across Central Europe, at the heart of the endemic region. In December 2020 the tbfvnet.eu website has been launched. The TBFVnet... Dec 16, 2020
A paper published by the Molecular Virology Group, ICGEB Trieste, Italy, presents a new strategy to diagnose flaviviruses infection in patient sera. This work is pivotal for the TBFVnet project as starting point to develop new assays for tick-borne flaviviruses.... 
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