Delusional infestation

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 690-732

  Freudenmann, Roland W ^a   Lepping, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BUTYROPHENONE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; DOXEPIN; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUPENTIXOL DECANOATE; FLUPHENAZINE DECANOATE; FLUSPIRILENE; HALOPERIDOL; IMIPRAMINE; LEVOCETIRIZINE; LORATADINE; MAPROTILINE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NOOTROPIC AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PHENOBARBITAL; PIMOZIDE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DELUSIONAL INFESTATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FORMICATION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; INCIDENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA;

ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 70449122485     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00018-09     Document Type: Review

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