Fulminant ocular leishmaniasis in an HIV-1-positive patient [4]

AIDS

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1485-1486

  Meenken, Christina ^a   Van Agtmael, Michiel A ^a   Ten Kate, Reinier W ^b   Van Den Horn, Gerardus J ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Kennemer Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Jan Van Goyen Medical Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

AMASTIGOTE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; EYE INFECTION; FEVER; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 3142752534     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000131348.83913.72     Document Type: Letter

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