A 41-year-old HIV-positive man with acute onset of quadriplegia after West Nile virus infection

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1051-1053

  Jamison, Suzanna Connick ^a   Michaels, Sarah R ^b   Ratard, Raoult ^b   Sweet, Jon M ^b   DeBoisblanc, Bennett P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Guillain Barr syndrome; Hearing loss; Human immunodeficiency virus; Immunocompromise; Poliomyelitis; West Nile encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEVER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DEAFNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; QUADRIPLEGIA; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 35148860225     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318153f076     Document Type: Article

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