Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and cerebral toxoplasmosis in an adult patient, with no symptoms of underlying immunosuppressing illness

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 229-234

  Bertrand, Ewa ^a   Lewandowska, Eliza ^a   Nerurkar, Vivek ^b   Bratosiewicz, Jolanta ^c   Yanagihara, Richard ^b   Zaborski, Jacek ^a   Liberski, Pawel P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b Leahi Hospital   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cerebral toxoplasmosis; Immunocompetency; Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METASTASIS; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; JC VIRUS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 0032242918     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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