Table 2. Clinical characteristics of severe TBE.

	MER	ME
Parameters	n = 16	n = 34	P-value
Disability†mRS, median (min.-max)
admission†	5 (4–5)	4 (2–5)	<0.001
> 12 month†	4 (1–6)	1 (0–3)	<0.0001
Intensive Care‡ n (%)	14 (87.5%)	13 (38.2%)	0.004
Mechanical ventilation‡	8 (50%)	1 (2.9%)	<0.001
Tracheotomy‡	3 (18.8%)	1 (2.9%)	n.s.
Co-morbidity n (%)
Diabetes mellitus‡	7 (43.8%)	4 (11.8%)	0.024
Polyneuropathy‡	4 (25.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0.008
Alcohol consumption‡	5 (31.2%)	5 (14.7%)	n.s.
others‡	3 (18.8%)	3 (8.8%)	n.s.
Neuroimaging n (%)
Pathological MRI# findings‡	7 (58.3%)	4 (17.4%)	0.016

MER, meningoencephaloradiculitis; ME, meningoendephalitis; mRS, modified RANKIN scale [12].

Statistic was calculated with Mann-Whitney U-test† and with Fisher exact test‡, respectively.

#MRI was not available in all patients.