Pediatric tick-borne encephalitis in 371 cases from an endemic region in Slovenia, 1959 to 2000.

Background: With the exception of Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is the most prevalent tick-transmitted disease in Europe. Here we report clinical and epidemiologic features of the largest number of children with TBE reported to date and the longest (i.e.

Sequeale of acute viral hepatitis type B.

In 1976 we undertook to evaluate the incidence of chronic liver lesions in 161 patients treated in hospital during the years 1970-1975 for their serologically established acute viral hepatitis type B (AVH-B). At systematic control examination mode in 1976, after a period from 1-5 years since the acute onset of disease, it was established that in 133 individuals (82.6%) the antigen HBs had disappeared from blood and the BLT had become normal.

The significance of HB antigenemy in apparently healthy persons in the clinic for liver diseases.

The study tries to clarify the affliction of liver as a consequence of the permanent HB antigenemy in apparently healthy persons. The study proves beyond doubt that in the majority of the HB antigen carriers such histological changes of the liver can be found that can be attributed only to an infection by the hepatitis virus. The majority of the HB antigen carriers are suffering either from the chronic focal (58%) or from the diffuse (21%) persistent hepatitis.