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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;78:529-531 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.107862
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Maculopapular rash and tremor are associated with West Nile fever and neurological syndromes

  1. Peter A G Tilley1,
  2. Julie D Fox2,
  3. Gayatri C Jayaraman3,
  4. Jutta K Preiksaitis4
  1. 1Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology), Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  2. 2Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  3. 3Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  4. 4Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology), Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr P A G Tilley
 Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology) and Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, 3030 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4W4; p.tilley{at}provlab.ab.ca
  • Received 27 September 2006
  • Accepted 30 November 2006
  • Revised 28 November 2006

Abstract

The clinical features associated with West Nile virus (WNV) infections are described based on data collected from history forms submitted with samples during a province-wide WNV testing programme. Age 40–59 years (OR 1.7, p<0.008), residence in the southeast of Alberta (OR 4.2, p<0.001), maculopapular rash (OR 8.6, p<0.001) or tremor (OR 3.6, p<0.001) were independently associated with WNV infection.

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  • Competing interests: None declared.

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