Case Report
West Nile Virus Encephalitis in a Patient with Neuroendocrine Carcinoma
Table 2
Diagnostic tests for acute West Nile Virus infection.
| | Test | Sensitivity | Specificity |
| | PCR (serum) | 10% | 100% | | PCR (CSF) | 55% | 100% | | WNV-specific IgM (serum) | 95% | 90% | | WNV-specific IgM (CSF) | 95% | 92% |
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PCR, polymerase chain reaction; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; WNV, West Nile Virus.
References: [1, 5–7].
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