1. Expanding the Differential During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fatal West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease.
- Author
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Titus SJ, Suter RN, Hoang AT, and Figel PA
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- California epidemiology, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Pandemics, Texas epidemiology, COVID-19 diagnosis, COVID-19 epidemiology, West Nile Fever diagnosis, West Nile Fever epidemiology
- Abstract
The ever-evolving pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has the potential to drown out other viruses continuing to infect communities. To highlight this, we present 2 cases of fatal West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease that occurred within 2 weeks of each other. Since the first positive case of West Nile virus in the United States, there have been 2 epidemics in the past 2 decades, most often occurring in regions of North Texas and Southern California, which have been areas of high-incidence for COVID-19. It is important for the health care provider to recognize diagnostic biases and maintain broad differentials for the patient presenting with fever and other symptoms associated with COVID-19., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: None., (© Copyright 2021 by the American Board of Family Medicine.)
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- 2021
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