Nucleic acid testing for west nile virus RNA in plasma enhances rapid diagnosis of acute infection in symptomatic patients.

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Published in J Infect Dis on April 04, 2006

Authors

Peter A G Tilley1, Julie D Fox, Gayatri C Jayaraman, Jutta K Preiksaitis

Author Affiliations

1: Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology), and Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. p.tilley@provlab.ab.ca

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