No detection of tick-borne encephalitis virus RNA in blood, urine or saliva of hospitalised immunocompetent tick-borne encephalitis patients

• Hanne Quarsten ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hanne.quarsten@sshf.no

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6469-525X

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• Åshild K. Andreassen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Katrine M. Paulsen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Maria J. Diekmann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division for Infection Control and Environmental Health, Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Randi Eikeland,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Tick-borne Diseases, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

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• Rita Helleren,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Tomas Bergström,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Sølvi Noraas,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Åslaug R. Lorentzen

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Tick-borne Diseases, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, Department of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, Norway

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