CNS infections in HIV patients;ZNS-infektionen bei HIV-infizierten

Therapeutische Umschau

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 670-674

  Malinverni, Raffaele ^a   Furrer, Hj ^b  

^a Hopital Pourtales Neuchatelois   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; FOSCARNET; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; FEVER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HELPER CELL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MENINGISM; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 0032712126     PISSN: 00405930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0040-5930.56.11.670     Document Type: Review

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