Alzheimer's dementia or cerebral toxoplasmosis? Case study of dementia following toxoplasmosis infection;Alzheimer-demenz oder zerebrale toxoplasmose? Falldarstellung einer patientin mit demenz nach toxoplasmose-infektion

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Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 874-878

  Freidel, St ^a,c   Martin Solch Ch ^b,c   Schreiter Gasser, U ^c  

^a St Gallische Psychiatrie Dienste Region Süd ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer dementia; Cerebral toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 0036942617     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-002-1346-8     Document Type: Article

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