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West Nile Virus

Clinical Characteristics of the West Nile Fever Outbreak, Israel, 2000

Michal Y. Chowers,* Ruth Lang,* Faris Nassar,† Debora Ben-David,‡, Michael Giladi§, Eitan Rubinshtein,‡ Avi Itzhaki,¶ Josef Mishal,# Yardena Siegman-Igra,§ Ruth Kitzes,** Neora Pick,†† Zvi Landau,‡‡ Dana Wolf,§§ Hanna Bin,¶¶ Ella Mendelson,¶¶ Silvio D. Pitlik,## and Miriam Weinberger##
*Meir Medical Center, Kfar Sava, Israel; †Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel; ‡Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; §Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ¶Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zrifin, Israel; #Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel; **Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; ††Bnei-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; ‡‡Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel; §§Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; ¶¶Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Tel Hashomer, Israel; and ##Rabin Medical Center, Belinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel

Figure 2. Number of positive blood samples for immunoglobulin (Ig) M serology and time from beginning of symptoms. Blood samples were obtained from the patients upon initial suspicion of the diagnosis of West Nile fever. Bars represent the numbers of persons with positive serology at a given time after the onset of symptoms.

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Figure 2. Number of positive blood samples for immunoglobulin (Ig) M serology and time from beginning of symptoms. Blood samples were obtained from the patients upon initial suspicion of the diagnosis of West Nile fever. Bars represent the numbers of persons with positive serology at a given time after the onset of symptoms.
 


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