We report a case of human tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in which the TBE virus was isolated from the biting tick. Viral growth and sequence were characterized and compared with those of a reference strain. Virus isolation from ticks from patients with TBE may offer a new approach for studies of epidemiology and pathogenicity.
Keywords: RNA; case report; cell culture; flavivirus; sequence analysis; tick-borne encephalitis; tick-borne encephalitis virus; vector-borne infections; viruses.