TABLE 1.

Selected clinical and laboratory parameters at time of blood collection and culture recovery

Patient no.	Duration of symptoms (days)	% Infected granulocytes	Absolute no. of infected granulocytes/μl	HGE antibody titer by IFAa	No. of days of storage before:
					Last positive culture aliquot	First negative culture aliquot
1	6	6	225	<80	7	NDb
2	11	0.5	32	NAc	17	ND
3	4	0.8	34	<80	18	24
4	8	0.3	2.7	320	12	29
5	6	25	903	160	14	21

^aIFA, indirect fluorescent-antibody assay. 

^bND, not done. 

^cNA, not available.