Motor and sensory polyneuritis with distal conduction failure as uncommon complication of an acute Rickettsia conorii infection

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 113-116

  Spengos, Konstantinos ^a,c   Stouraitis, Georgios ^a   Voumvourakis, Konstantinos ^a   Zambelis, Thomas ^b   Karandreas, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distal conduction failure; Facial nerve palsy; Mediterranean spotted fever; Polyneuritis; Rickettsia conorii

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION FAILURE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEURITIS; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SENSORY NERVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURITIS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 21344445745     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.03.045     Document Type: Article

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