11:30 | Registration open |
11:30 | Drop in lunch |
12:35 | Preludium by Haraldsgutterne |
12:45 | Welcome address, Nina Mevold, Director of Sørlandet Hospital Trust and music by Haraldsguttene |
12:55 | Congress Opening: Harald Reiso |
Key Note 1: Atle Mysterud, Tick-host biology and interplay with pathogenic microorganisms. Introduced by Lars Korslund | |
In collaboration with the EU Interreg North Sea Region project NorthTick | |
13:35 | Session 1: Tick biology, ecology and interplay with pathogenic microorganisms |
Chairs: Per-Eric Lindgren & Lars Korslund | |
Snorre Stuen: Hyalomma marginatum – a future establishment in Norway? | |
Peter Wilhelmsson: First records of suspected tick-borne pathogens in a population of the bat tick Carios vespertilionis in Sweden | |
Nellie Carlströmer Berthén: The AxBioTick-study: Host immune responses following a tick bite in relation to pathogens, tick characteristics, and clinical outcome | |
Eszter Tompa: AxBioTick study: Prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in ticks detached from humans in the Åland Islands | |
Matilda Ljungqvist Lövmar:Tick-borne pathogens in ticks and infections in tick-bitten TBD STING study participants in an emerging tick focus in northern Europe | |
14:40 | Coffee break |
15:00 | Giulio Grandi: Ixodid tick species found in northern Sweden – what’s going on? |
Ann Albihn: Tick-borne pathogens in ixodid tick collected in northern Sweden - new risks for the community? | |
Fathiah Zakham:Molecular detection of pathogens from ticks collected from dogs and cats at veterinary clinics in Finland | |
René Bødker: Large-scale study of tick-borne pathogens in ticks removed from dogs and cats in Norway | |
Eva Kallio: Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in urban and rural forests: increased hazard in urban ecosystems | |
16:00 | End of today |
17:00 | Bus departure to the social activies (pre-booked) |
20:30 | Dinner at the hotel |
Taxi-transfer to Grimstad 23:00 (Busses 21:33, 22:33 & 23:34) |
08.30 | Session 1 continued. Tick biology, ecology and interplay with pathogenic microorganisms |
Chairs: Per-Eric Lindgren & Lars Korslund | |
Käthe Robert: Investigating the distribution of ticks and tick-borne diseases through citizen science | |
Mats Van Gestel: Exploring indirect effects of forest infrastructure on Ixodes ricinus distribution in urban greenspaces: host distribution | |
Threrese Janzen: Assessing public health risk due to ticks along the urbanization gradient in Stockholm County, Sweden | |
Patrik Dinnetz: Landscape and local site factors affecting tick abundance along an urbanization gradient | |
09:20 | Cofffe break |
09:40 | Key Note 2: Cornelia Silaghi, Institute of Infectology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald Isle of Riems, Germany: Tick-borne infections in animals in N. Europe, zoonotic aspects – present & future. |
Introduced by Snorre Stuen (this lecture will be given digitally) | |
10:20 | Coffee break |
10:50 | Session 2 : Ecology, epidemiology & molecular biology of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE) |
Chairs: Randi Eikeland & Anne-Mette Lebech | |
Jessica Tikkala: Tick-borne encephalitis in the Åland Islands 2006-2020: incidence, clinical characteristics, and outcome since implementation of free vaccination. | |
Sambor Grygorczuk: Associations of the cerebrospinal fluid lymphocyte populations with a clinical presentation of tick-bone encephalitis | |
Henna Mäkelä: TBE epidemiology in Nordic and Baltic countries – changes between 2021 and the period 2017-2020 | |
Maya Holding Utility of eco-epidemiological studies for the surveillance of tick-borne encephalitis virus in non-endemic areas – a UK example | |
11:50 | Session 3: Ecology, epidemiology and diagnostics of other potential pathogens: e.g. Anaplasma, |
Chairs: Snorre Stuen & Anne-Mette Lebech | |
Christine Wennerås Tick-borne disease caused by Spiroplasma ixodetis in Sweden | |
Hanne Quarsten Types and availability of diagnostic tests for less known tick-borne infections | |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:30 | Conference photo session |
13.45 | Key Note 3: Hein Sprong, Ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in the Netherlands. Introduced by Anne-Mette Lebech |
In collaboration with the EU Interreg North Sea Region project NorthTick | |
Session 3 continued | |
14:25 | Rosa Maja Møhring Gynthersen: Neoehrlichia mikurensis detected in Danish immunosuppressed patients: a retrospective cohort study |
Lisa Labbé Sandelin: Neoehrlichia mikurensis in Blood Donors and in Traced Recipients in Southeast Sweden | |
Linda Wass: The Neoferon study – a study to answer if Neoehrlichia mikurensis causes chronic persistent infection | |
Pia Formisano: Developing a recombinant protein ELISA for diagnosis and prevalence studies of human babesiosis, an emerging disease in Scotland | |
Sveinung Eskeland: Preliminary transcriptomic results in sheep intravenously inoculated with a virulent A. phagocytophilum strain. | |
15:30 | Poster presentations & coffee (for our virtual participants there will be availability on Teams and short presentations on the website. |
16:30 | Public (and streamed) lecture on “Ticks & pets”, in Scandinavian: «Kan hunder og katter bli syke av flåttbitt?» |
Invited speaker: Karin Hultin Jäderlund. Welcome & introduction by Randi Eikeland, Norway | |
19:00 | Greetings from "Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases", a 10th year plus anniversary (by teams in the conference room). |
Invited speaker: Olaf Kahl | |
19:30 - | Dinner & entertainment, at Strand Hotel Fevik. |
Taxi-transfer to Grimstad 23:00 (Buses 21:33, 22:33 & 23:34) |
08.30 | Key Note 4: Klaus-Peter Hunfeld; Laboratory diagnostics of tick-borne pathogens |
Introduction by Marika Nordberg | |
09:10 | Session 4: Ecology, epidemiology and diagnostics of Borrelia |
Chairs: Marika Nordberg & Harald Reiso | |
Frederick J. Angulo: Estimate of the number of Lyme Borreliosis (LB) cases in Finland in 2021 after adjusting for under-ascertainment by national surveillance programs | |
Sally Mavin: Northtick evaluation of IgM testing | |
Ram Dessau: Detecting changes in Borrelia burgdorferi antibody reactivity in follow-up samples. | |
Tamara van Gorkom: Retrospective Evaluation of Various Serological Assays and Multiple Parameters for Optimal Diagnosis of Lyme Neuroborreliosis in a Routine Clinical Setting | |
Dieuwertje Hoornstra The development and validation of a protein array for the detection of antibodies against the tick-borne pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi | |
Nanna Skaarup Andersen: Optimization of PCR diagnostics in Lyme Neuroborreliosis | |
10:25 | Coffee Break |
10:40 | Paula Gyllemark: Outcome and intrathecal Th1-, Th2-, Th17- and B-cell associated cytokines and chemokines in Lyme neuroborreliosis: a prospective follow-up study from South-eastern Sweden. |
Helene Mens: Neurofilament light in CSF is associated with disease staging in European Lyme neuroborreliosis | |
Fredrikke Christie Knudtzen, Odense University Hospital, Denmark: Lyme neuroborreliosis with encephalitis; a systematic literature review and a Scandinavian cohort study | |
Silje Andreassen: Cognitive function and fatigue in patients with neuroborreliosis: A prospective follow-up 12 months post-treatment | |
Anne Marit Solheim: Antibiotic treatment length in European Neuroborreliosis: Two versus six weeks treatment with doxycycline | |
Amber Vrijlandt: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato persisters: a systematic overview and appraisal of the current evidence from experimental animal models for Lyme borreliosis | |
11:55 | Pictorial review of the Conference.. Closing address. Welcome to NordTick 2024! |
12:05 | Lunch and departure |
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