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Fig. 4. Serial analysis of plasma severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-
coronavirus (CoV) RNA levels in pediatric SARS patients. Plots of plasma SARS-
CoV RNA levels (
y
-axis) against time after the onset of fever (d 1 refers the day of
fever onset) (
x
-axis). The duration of fever and the periods of steroid and ribavirin
treatment are indicated for each case. The arrows in patient 2 indicate the time of
intravenous methylprednisolone treatment.