Neurosyphilis in the antibiotic era

Neurology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1985, Pages 1368-1371

  Burke, James M ^a   Schaberg, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEAVY METAL; PENICILLIN G;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROSYPHILIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; THERAPY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VASCULITIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS; FEMALE; FLOCCULATION TESTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROSYPHILIS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 0021876428     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.35.9.1368     Document Type: Article

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