Norske bidrag til flåttforskning

2024

Eikeland, R, et al (2024) «Tick-borne diseases in the North Sea region-A comprehensive overview and recommendations for diagnostics and treatment»

Jore, S, et al (2024) «Outdoor recreation, tick borne encephalitis incidence and seasonality in Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020/2021)»

Lorentzen, Å. R, et al (2024) «Rituximab leading to an atypical presentation of neuroborreliosis and false negative serology»

Quarsten, H (2024) «No detection of tick-borne encephalitis virus RNA in blood, urine or saliva of hospitalised immunocompetent tick-borne encephalitis patients» 

Skarstein, I, et al (2024) «Serum neurofilament light chain associates with symptom burden in Lyme neuroborreliosis patients: a longitudinal cohort study from Norway»

Skudal, H, et al (2024) «Clinical characteristics and factors affecting disease severity in hospitalized tick-borne encephalitis patients in Norway from 2018 to 2022 

2023

Andreassem, S, et al. 2023 «Assessment of cognitive function, structural brain changes and fatigue 6 months after treatment of neuroborreliosis»

Eikeland, R, et al (2023) «Tick-borne diseases in the North Sea Region – a comprehensive overview and recommendations for diagnostic, treatment and management strategies» 

Elisabeth S Lindland, E. S, et al (2023) «Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI shows altered blood-brain barrier function of deep gray matter structures in neuroborreliosis: a case-control study»

Jore, S, et al (2003) «Outdoor recreation, tick borne encephalitis incidence and seasonality in Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020/2021)»

Lamsal, A, et al (2023) «Serological screening for tick-borne encephalitis virus in eight Norwegian herds of semi-domesticated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)»

Lamsal, A, et al. 2023 «Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Scandinavia and the possible influence of meteorological factors»

Lindland, E.S, et al. 2023 «Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI shows altered blood-brain barrier function of deep gray matter structures in neuroborreliosis: a case-control study»

Marvik, Å, et al (2023) «Skogflåttencefalitt hos barn»

Quarsten, H, et al (2023) » Tick-borne diseases under the radar in the North Sea Region»

Schwartz, T, et al. 2023 «Case report: First case of Borrelia miyamotoi meningitis in an immunocompromised patient in Norway»

Tjernberg, I, et al. 2023 «Identification of potential biomarkers in active Lyme borreliosis»

2022

Andreassen, S, et al (2022). «Cognitive function in patients with neuroborreliosis: A prospective cohort study from the acute phase to 12 months post treatment»

Bernardshaw, E, et al. 2022 «Antibiotic therapy of neuroborreliosis: A survey among infectious disease specialists and neurologists in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark»

Crosby, F. L, et al (2022) «Comparative Whole Genome Analysis of an Anaplasma phagocytophilum Strain Isolated from Norwegian Sheep»

Halperin, J. J, et al (2022) «Lyme neuroborreliosis: known knowns, known unknowns»

Knudtzen, F. C, et al (2022) «Lyme neuroborreliosis with encephalitis; a systematic literature review and a Scandinavian cohort study.»

Lindland, E, et al (2022) «Enhancement of cranial nerves in Lyme neuroborreliosis: incidence and correlation with clinical symptoms and prognosis»

Solheim, A. M, et al (2022) «Six versus 2 weeks treatment with doxycycline in European Lyme neuroborreliosis: a multicentre, non-inferiority, double-blinded, randomised and placebo-controlled trial»

2021

Andreassen, S, et al. 2021 «Cognitive function, fatigue and Fazekas score in patients with acute neuroborreliosis»

Andreassen, Å, et al. 2021 «Low prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in Norwegian blood donors»

De Pelsmaeker, N, et al. 2021 «High-elevational occurrence of two tick species, Ixodes ricinus and I. trianguliceps, at their northern distribution range»

Eikeland, R., et. al. 2021 «European neuroborreliosis: neuropsychological finding 30 months post-treatment»

Eliassen, K. E., et al. (2021). «Tick-transmitted co-infections among erythema migrans patients in a general practice setting in Norway: a clinical and laboratory follow-up study.» BMC Infect Dis 21(1): 1044.

Henningsson, A.J, et al. 2021 «Laboratory Methods for Detection of Infectious Agents and Serological Response in Humans With Tick-Borne Infections: A Systematic Review of Evaluations Based on Clinical Patient Samples»

Høiberg H.K. et al. 2021. «Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans in prolonged borrelia infection» 

Knudtzen, F.C. et al. 2021. «Lyme neuroborreliosis with encephalitis: a systematic literature review and a Scandinavian cohort study

Norsk Veterinær Tidsskrift (2021) : Skogflått hos hund og katt i Norge

Quarsten, H, et al. 2021 «Tick-borne Pathogens Detected in the Blood of Immunosuppressed Norwegian Patients Living in a Tick-endemic Area»

Reiso, H, et al. 2021 «Kronikk: Hva bør gjøres ved mistanke om flåttbåren sykdom?»

Solheim, A.M. (2021). «Lyme neuroborreliosis with encephalititis; a systematic litterature review and a Scandinavian cohort study». 

Thortveit, E.T., (2021). «Flåttbårne infeksjoner og selvrapporterte helseplager; en helseundersøkelse i Søgne kommune, Sør-Norge»

2020

Barstad, B, et al. 2020 «Cerebrospinal fluid cytokines and chemokines in children with Lyme neuroborreliosis; pattern and diagnostic utility»

Eikeland, R, et al. 2020 «Patient-reported outcome after treatment for definite Lyme neuroborreliosis»

Eriksen, E, et al. 2020 «En kvinne i 50-årene med residiverende svimmelhet»

Folkehelseinstituttet – Årsrapport 2019 «Overvåkning av sykdommer som smitter fra mat, vann og dyr, inkludert vektorbårne sykdommer»

Hvidsten, D, et al. 2020 «The distribution limit of the common tick, Ixodes ricinus, and some associated pathogens in north-western Europe»

Jore, S, et al. 2020 «Spatial tick bite exposure and associated risk factors in Scandinavia»

Kjær, L. J, et al. 2020 «Spatial patterns of pathogen prevalence in questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Scandinavia, 2016»

Marvik, Å, et al. 2020 «Low prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in Norwegian blood donors»

Paulsen, K. M, et al. 2020 «Cervids as sentinel-species for tick-borne encephalitis virus in Norway – A serological study»

Pedersen, B.N, et al. 2020 «Distribution of Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ixodes ricinus ticks along the coast of Norway: The western seaboard is a low-prevalence region»

Quarsten, H, et al. 2020 «Tick-borne Pathogens Detected in the Blood of Immunosuppressed Norwegian Patients Living in a Tick-endemic Area»

Rapport (2020) «Overvåking av infeksjonssykdommer som smitter fra mat, vann og dyr, inkludert vektorbårne sykdommer» – Folkehelseinstituttet

Rapport (2020) «Nordisk konsensus om utredning og oppfølging av personer med langvarige plager ved mistenkte flåttbårne sykdommer» – Helsedirektoratet

Thortveit, E.T, et al. 2020 «Human seroprevalence of antibodies to tick-borne microbes in southern Norway»

Thortveit, E.T, et al. 2020 «Subjective health complaints and exposure to tick-borne infections in southern Norway»

Vikse, R, et al. 2020 «Geographical distribution and prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks and phylogeographic structure of the Ixodes ricinus vector in Norway»

2019

Folkehelseinstituttet – Årsrapport 2018 «Overvåkning av sykdommer som smitter fra mat, vann og dyr, inkludert vektorbårne sykdommer»

Kjær, L.J, et al. 2019 «A large–scale screening for the taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus, and the meadow tick, Dermacentor reticulatus, in southern Scandinavia, 2016″

Jenkins, A, et al. 2019 «Detection of Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Norway up to the northern limit of Ixodes ricinus distribution using a novel real time PCR test targeting the groEL gene»Larsson, C, et al. 2018 «Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected near the Arctic Circle in Norway»

Kjær, L.J, et al. 2019 «Predicting the spatial abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks in southern Scandinavia using environmental and climatic data»

Lager, M, et al. 2019 «Serological diagnostics of Lyme borreliosis: comparison of assays in twelve clinical laboratories in Northern Europe»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2019 «Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato detected in 16 mammal species and questing ticks from Northern Europe»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2019 «How general are generalist parasites? The small mammal part of the Lyme disease transmission cycle in two ecosystems in northern Europe»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2019 «Lyme neuroborreliosis and bird populations in northern Europe»

Paulsen, K.M, et al. 2019 «Tick-borne encephalitis virus in cows and unpasteurized cow milk from Norway»

Thortveit, E .T, et al. 2019 «Somatic symptoms and fatigue in a Norwegian population with high exposure to ticks»

Solheim, A.M, et al. 2019 «Six versus two weeks treatment with doxycycline in Lyme neuroborreliosis: the protocol of a multicentre, non-inferiority, double-blinded and randomised controlled trial»

2018

Barstad, B, et al. 2018 «Direct Molecular Detection and Genotyping of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Lyme Neuroborreliosis»

Eliassen, K. E, et al. 2018 «Comparison of phenoxymethylpenicillin, amoxicillin, and doxycycline for erythema migrans in general practice. A randomized controlled trial with a 1-year follow-up»

Kjelland, V, et al. 2018 “Tick-borne encephalitis virus, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Borrelia miyamotoi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from recreational islands in southern Norway”

Larsson, C, et al. 2018 «Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected near the Arctic Circle in Norway»

Lindland, E.S, et al. 2018 «Imaging in Lyme neuroborreliosis»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2018 «Tick abundance, pathogen prevalence, and disease incidence in two contrasting regions at the northern distribution range of Europe»

Paulsen, K. M, et al. 2018 «Tick‐borne encephalitis virus in cows and unpasteurized cow milk from Norway»

Soleng, A, et al. 2018 “Distribution of Ixodes ricinus ticks and prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus among questing ticks in the Arctic Circle region of northern Norway”

2017

Barstad, B, et al. 2018 «Cerebrospinal Fluid B-lymphocyte Chemoattractant CXCL13 in the Diagnosis of Acute Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Children»

Eliassen, K. E, et al. 2017 «Symptom load and general function among patients with erythema migrans: a prospective study with a 1-year follow-up after antibiotic treatment in Norwegian general practice»

Forselv, K, et al. 2017 «Does more favourable handling of the cerebrospinal fluid increase the diagnostic sensitivity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-specific PCR in Lyme neuroborreliosis?»

Frivik, J.O, et al. 2017 «A man in his sixties from Southern Norway with intermittent fever»

Hvidsten, D, et al. 2017 «Blood donor Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato seroprevalence and history of tick bites at a northern limit of the vector distribution»

Lager, M, et al. 2017 «Molecular detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato – An analytical comparison of real-time PCR protocols from five different Scandinavian laboratories»

Lorentzen, Å. R, et  al. 2017 «Lyme neuroborreliosis: do we treat according to guidelines?»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2017 «Emergence of tick-borne diseases at northern latitudes in Europe: a comparative approach»

Roaldsnes, E, et al. 2017 «Lyme neuroborreliosis in cases of non-specific neurological symptoms»

Quarsten, H, et al. 2017 «Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato detected in the blood of Norwegian patients with erythema migrans»

Eldre forskningsartikler

Aase, A, et al. 2016 «Validate or falsify: Lessons learned from a microscopy method claimed to be useful for detecting Borrelia and Babesia organisms in human blood»

Analysemetoder påvisning Lyme borreliose Mikrobiologisk laboratorium Sørlandet Sykehus 2013

Andreassen, A, et al. 2012 “Prevalence of tick borne encephalitis virus in tick nymphs in relation to climatic factors on the southern coast of Norway”

Eikeland, R, 2012 «European neuroborreliosis – Long term follow-up»

Eikeland, R, et al. 2011 » European neuroborreliosis: quality of life 30 months after treatment»

Eikeland, R, et al. 2013 «Risk factors for a non-favorable outcome after treated European neuroborreliosis»

Eliassen, K. E, et al. 2016 «Incidence and antibiotic treatment of erythema migrans in Norway 2005-2009»

Haugeberg, G, et al. 2014 «Lyme arthritis in Southern Norway – an endemic area for Lyme Borreliosis»

Hjetland, R, et al. 2015 “Seroprevalence of antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in healthy adults from western Norway”

Hvidsten, D, et al. 2014 «Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia prevalence at the Arctic Circle in Norway»

Larsen, A. L, et al. 2014 “Detection of specifi c IgG antibodies in blood donors and tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks within a non-endemic area in southeast Norway”

Ljøstad, U, et al. 2008 “Oral doxycycline versus intravenous ceftriaxone for European Lyme neuroborreliosis: a multicentre, non-inferiority, double-blind, randomised trial”

Ljøstad, U, et al. 2008 «Lyme borreliose hos voksne»

Kjelland, V, et al. 2010 «Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from migratory birds in Southern Norway»

Kjelland, V, et al. 2010 «Prevalence and genotypes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Southern Norway»

Mysterud, A, et al. 2016 » Contrasting emergence of Lyme disease across ecosystems»

Paulsen, K. M, et al. 2015 “Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus ticks from three islands in north-western Norway”

Quarsten, H, et al. 2015 «Tick-borne bacteria in Ixodes ricinus collected in southern Norway evaluated by a commercial kit and established real-time PCR protocol»

Rapport om diagnostisering og behandling av Lyme borreliose (2009) – Helsedirektoratet

Soleng, A, et al. 2013 «Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Brønnøysund in northern Norway»

Stuen, S, et al. 2013 «Anaplasma phagocytophilum–a widespread multi-host pathogen with highly adaptive strategies»

Øymar, K, et al. 2009 «Clinical characteristics of childhood Lyme neuroborreliosis in an endemic area of northern Europe»

Årsrapport: Flått og flåttbårne sykdommer i 2015 – Folkehelseinstituttet

Årsrapport: Flått og flåttbårne sykdommer. Lyme borreliose og skogflåttencefalitt i 2014 – Folkehelseinstituttet

Årsrapport: Flått og flåttbårne sykdommer i 2013 – Folkehelseinstituttet