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Study design: A case report.
Setting: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Method: Summary of the clinical course during in-patient and out-patient treatment of a patient with West Nile Virus Myelitis.
Results and conclusion: A healthy young woman, whose medical history revealed only a benign Duane syndrome and a few months' duration of bipolar disorder, contracted encephalo-myelitis due to a West Nile Virus infection. Although she recovered remarkably after long-term rehabilitation treatments, some weakness and pain remained.
Spinal Cord (2001) 39, 662–663.
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Ohry, A., Karpin, H., Yoeli, D. et al. West Nile Virus Myelitis. Spinal Cord 39, 662–663 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.sc.3101228
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