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Jennifer L Patnaik1, Heath Harmon, Richard L Vogt
1Tri-County Health Department, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, USA. jpatnaik@tchd.org
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|July 14, 2006
Abstract:
Tri-County Health Department and Boulder County Public Health conducted a follow-up study of all nonfatal West Nile virus (WNV) cases reported during 2003 in 4 metropolitan Denver, Colorado, counties. Self-reported patient information was obtained approximately 6 months after onset. A total of 656 (81.2%) eligible WNV patients are included in this study.
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