A woman with HIV infection, brain abscesses, and eosinophilia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Campo, Marcela ^a,b   Phung, Man K ^b   Ahmed, Rehan ^b   Cantey, Paul ^c,d   Bishop, Henry ^c   Bell, Tanvir K ^a,b   Gardiner, Carolyn ^b   Arlas, Cesar A ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c Vector Borne   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; NIFURTIMOX; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CRANIAL NERVE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 73649084090     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649538     Document Type: Article

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