1787. The Effects of a Systemwide Diagnostic Stewardship Change on West Nile Virus Disease Ordering Practices

BACKGROUND: Neuroinvasive West Nile Virus (WNV) often leads to prolonged neurological deficits and carries a high case fatality rate. The CSF IgM (MAC-ELISA) is preferred over the CSF nucleic acid-based test (NAAT) by the CDC due to its higher sensitivity. However, our hospital system was observed t...

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Autores principales: Karaba, Andrew H, Blair, Paul W, Martin, Kevin M, Saheed, Mustapha O, Carroll, Karen C, Borowitz, Mike J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809362/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1650

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