A patient with marked immunodeficiency in an HTLV-I carrier: A case report

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-139

  Iroi, Atsuko ^a   Miyashita, Nobuo ^a   Nakamura, Shinichiro ^a   Ohizumi, Hideki ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HAM; HTLV I carrier; Immunodeficiency; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Retrobulbar neuritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROBULBAR OPTIC NEUROPATHY; VIRUS CARRIER;

CARRIER STATE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 0034036734     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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