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MiRNAs regulate pro-inflammatory cytokine production; therefore, changes in their profiles across different forms of TBE may determine the nature of the cytokine response. The aim of this work was to identify the specific features of the circulating miRNA and cytokine profiles in different clinical forms of TBE, as well as to analyze the correlations between them. The study included patients with febrile, meningeal, and encephalitic forms of TBE, patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD), and healthy donors. Plasma concentrations of eight miRNAs (miR-25-3p, miR-29a-3p, miR-92a-3p, miR-146a-5p, miR-146b-5p, miR-181a-5p, miR-486-3p, and miR-766-3p) were measured by stem-loop real-time RT-PCR. Cytokine concentrations (IL-1\u03b2, IL-2, IL-8, IL-18, TNF-\u03b1) were measured by ELISA. Kendall\u2019s rank correlation test was used for the correlation analysis. In all forms of TBE, a distinct circulating miRNA signature emerges (\u2191 miR-25-3p, miR-146b-5p, \u2191 miR-766-3p, and \u2193 miR-29a-3p), which is associated with an acute antiviral response and is not specific to chronic autoimmune inflammation. Several miRNAs (miR-29a-3p, miR-92a-3p, miR-146b-5p, and miR-486-3p) showed opposite changes in TBE and IRD, pointing to fundamentally different mechanisms of immune regulation in acute neuroinfection and systemic autoimmune pathology. Several statistical associations between circulating miRNA and pro-inflammatory cytokine levels were identified. TNF-\u03b1 levels positively correlated with miR-146b-5p and negatively with miR-25-3p, while IL-2 positively correlated with miR-25-3p. In the encephalitic form of TBE, IL-1\u03b2 positively correlated with miR-146b-5p and miR-92a-3p. The present study is of a pilot nature. The miRNA and cytokine patterns identified here were based on a small sample size and should therefore be regarded as preliminary. 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