Monday, March 10
Session 1: Epidemiology and Tick-borne diseases prevention
9h00 - 10h20 : Tick-Borne Diseases Prevention
Chairs: Céline Cazorla (FRA), Clément Theis (FRA)
Keynote: Tick-Borne diseases risks at animal-human-ecosystem interfaces – Sally Cutler (GBR) ➤ Click here to download
OP 16: Identification of the ecosystem at risk for human rickettsioses in eastern France – Nathalie Boulanger (FRA) ➤ Click here to download
OP 33: Maps of tick’s presence and associated tick-borne pathogens in and around Paris, France – Sarah Bonnet (FRA)
101: Country-wide assessment of pathogen presence in ticks collected in 2021-2024 in Germany: a One Health approach – Natalia Marta Zmarlak-Feher (GER)
OP 61: Evaluation of the effectiveness of a prevention program against tick bites and Lyme borreliosis targeting elementary schools – Claire Ancel (FRA)
10:50 - 12:10 : Tick-Borne Diseases Epidemiology - Part 1
Chairs: Mateusz Markowicz (AUT), Alice Raffetin (FRA)
Keynote: Why implement mandatory reporting of neuroborreliosis in Europe? – Joana Hassing (SWE)
OP 58: Tick-borne encephalitis in adults in Denmark: A nationwide prospective cohort study from 2015 to 2023 – Anna Maria Florezsw (DNK)
OP 59: Epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis in mainland France based on two sources of data: results of 15 years of surveillance – Camille Bonnet (FRA)
OP 74: Human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis: new clinical, biological and epidemiological insight in a French North Eastern hotspot – Victor Gerber (FRA) ➤ Click here to download
OP 10: The prevalence of Lyme disease and other Ixodes ricinus-borne diseases in tick-bitten individuals with and without febrile illness in 2018-2021: a prospective case-control study – Diewertje Hoonstra (NLD)
15:00 - 16:05 : Tick-Borne Diseases Epidemiology - Part 2
Chairs: Mateusz Markowicz (AUT), Alice Raffetin (FRA)
OP 87: Prevalence of the tick-borne infection Neoehrlichia mikurensis among individuals receiving B-cell depleting therapy in the Capital Region of Denmark – a prospective cohort study – Helene Mers (DNK)
OP 19: Tick-Borne LymphAdenopathy in northeastern France: Human and vector clinical-epidemiological study – Jeanne Kotyba (FRA)
OP 23: Emergence of tick-borne encephalitis as one the 3 leading causes of meningoencephalitis/encephalitis in a central area of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France – Émilie Meyer (FRA)
Keynote: The view from a patient organisation – Stella Hülyse-Shires (GBR) ➤ Click here to download
Session 2: Vaccination against tick-borne diseases
16:35 - 17:50 : Latest updates and future perspectives for vaccination against tick-borne diseases
Chairs: Pierre Tattevin (FRA), Joppe W. Hovius (NLD), Sébastien Gallien (FRA)
Keynote: TBE Vaccination – Karin Stiasny (AUT)
OP 1: Progress toward development of a human Lyme disease vaccine – Marc Messier (AUT) ➤ Click here to download
Keynote: Human immune responses against tick-bites: a human tick challenge model – Hannelor Beaart (NDL), Philip Elders (NDL)
Keynote: Top publications of the year about prevention and epidemiology – Julie Figoni (FRA)
Tuesday, March 11
Session 3: Tick-Borne Diseases Diagnostic Tools
09:00 - 10:20 : Latest Updates and Future Perspectives for Diagnostic Tools – Part 1
Chairs: Volker Fingerle (DEU), Anna Henningsson (SWE), Ram Dessau (DNK)
Keynote: Methods for diagnostic tests accuracy – Ram Dessau (DNK)
OP 67: Is the PCR targeting the large subunit of phage terminase (terL) suitable for Borrelia diagnostics in Europe? – Gabriele Margos (DEU)
OP 46: CXCL13 in real life, one year French NRC experience – Antoine Grillon (FRA)
OP 53: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in patients treated with B cell-depleting therapy: a systematic review – Emile Carol Martin (FRA) ➤ Click here to download
OP 80: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibody dynamics in cerebrospinal fluid: implications of antibody decay – Marc Westerfohl (SWE)
10:50 - 11:45 : Latest Updates and Future Perspectives for Diagnostic Tools – Part 2
Chairs: Volker Fingerle (DEU), Anna Henningsson (SWE), Ram Dessau (DNK)
OP 71: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of a large collection of Dutch clinical B. burgdorferi s.l. isolates by a standardized and high-throughput method – Amber Vrijlandt (NLD)
Keynote: Top publications of the year about diagnostic tools – Anna Henningsson (SWE), Fingerle Volker (DEU)
Keynote: Interactive session: "What do we need to better diagnose tick-borne diseases?" – Reto Lienhard (CHE), Benoit Jaulhac (FRA)
Session 4: Management of Tick-Borne Diseases
14:15 - 15:05 : Focus on Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases
Chairs: Jacques Sevestre (FRA), Yves Hansmann (FRA)
Keynote: Organizing the struggle based on the Turkish experience against Crimean Congo Haemorragic Fever – Simon Bessis (FRA) ➤ Click here to download
OC 38: Cerebrospinal fluid findings in patients with different clinical presentations of tick-borne encephalitis – Petra Bogovic (SVN)
OC 55: Alpha-gal Syndrome: A Life-Changing Condition with Invisible Impacts on Well-Being and a Tendency to Vary – Jerry Hall (USA)
15:05 - 15:45 : Latest Updates on Lyme Borreliosis Management and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome – Part 1
Chairs: Randi Eikeland (NOR), Franc Strle (SVN)
Keynote: Top papers of the year about tick-borne diseases management - Solène Patrat-Delon (FRA), Randi Eikeland (NOR)
Keynote: European guidelines 2025 about Tick-Borne Diseases: the French and German case – Alice Raffetin (FRA), Benoît Jaulhac (FRA), Aude Gouttier (FRA), Volker Fingerle (DEU), Reto Lienhard (CHE) ➤ Click here to download
16:15 - 17:05 : Latest Updates on Lyme Borreliosis Management and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome – Part 2
Chairs: Randi Eikeland (NOR), Franc Strle (SVN)
OC 51: Towards shortening the duration of antibiotic therapy for Lyme borreliosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Alice Raffetin (FRA) ➤ Click here to download
Keynote: Misdiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis and other tick-borne diseases in Ukraine – Oleksandra Popovych (UKR)
OC 40: The impact of limited health literacy on Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in patients followed in a Tick-Borne Diseases Reference Center – Elisabeth Baux (FRA) ➤ Click here to download