Medical Definition of tick-borne encephalitis
: any encephalitis transmitted by ticks
specifically
: a mild to fatal virus disease of humans of Europe and Asia that is characterized most often by meningitis or encephalitis or both or sometimes only by a mild fever and that is caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus
—abbr. TBE
— see russian spring-summer encephalitis
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“Tick-borne encephalitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/tick-borne%20encephalitis. Accessed 26 Jun. 2022.
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