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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 697418, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/697418
Research Article

Plasma Cell Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis Does Not Predict West Nile Virus Infection

Michael Jordan,1 Avish Nagpal,2 William Newman,1 Paul A. Thompson,3 and Paul J. Carson1,4

1Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
2Department of Infectious Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
3Sanford Research/USD, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA
4Department of Infectious Disease, Sanford Health, Fargo, ND 58122, USA

Received 25 May 2011; Accepted 30 July 2011

Academic Editor: Stuart D. Blacksell

Copyright © 2012 Michael Jordan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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