Clinical characteristics of patients in Peru with human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1-associated tropical spastic paraparesis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 939-944

  Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^a,b   Cabrera, J ^a,c   Daze, L ^d   Verdonck, K ^a,e   Vandamme, A M ^f   Cairampoma, R ^a   Vizcarra, D ^c   Cabada, M ^a   Narvarte, G ^a   De Las Casas, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^b Tropical Medicine and Dermatology ^*  (Peru)

^c HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^d HOSPITAL NACIONAL GUILLERMO ALMENARA IRIGOYEN   (Peru)

^e INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^f REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HYPERREFLEXIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARESTHESIA; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPASTICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREMOR; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; PERU; SENSATION DISORDERS; TREMOR;

EID: 4744344801     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423957     Document Type: Article

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