Acute syphilitic blindness in an HIV-positive patient

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 209-211

  Oette, Mark ^a   Hemker, Jan ^a   Feldt, Torsten ^a   Sagir, Abdurrahman ^a   Best, Jochen ^a   Häussinger, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UVEITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLINDNESS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PENICILLINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 18144377384     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2005.19.209     Document Type: Article

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