Subacute polyradiculoneuritis revealing syphilis in an HIV-negative man [2]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 284-285

  Darras Joly, C ^a   Belec, L ^a   Lortholary, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; NEURITIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0034191848     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00077-1.x     Document Type: Letter

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