Dementia associated with infectious diseases

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Almeida, Osvaldo P ^a   Lautenschlager, Nicola T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cognitive impairment; Herpes; Lyme disease; Neurocysticercosis; Prion diseases; Syphilis; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FOLINIC ACID; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; MEMANTINE; MEPACRINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SELEGILINE; SULFADIAZINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGED; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BORRELIA INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEMENTIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; KURU; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRION DISEASE; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HERPES ZOSTER;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MENINGITIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; PRION DISEASES; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 33644816697     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104161020500195X     Document Type: Review

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