The Role for Intravenous Immunoglobulin in the Treatment of West Nile Virus Encephalitis

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15 September 2003

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Vol. 37 (6) , e88-e90
https://doi.org/10.1086/377172

Abstract

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) with high titers to West Nile virus was used as an adjuvant therapy for a patient with West Nile virus encephalitis

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