Neurological manifestations of Chagas' disease

Neurological Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Córdova, Ezequiel ^a,b   Maiolo, Elena ^a,b   Corti, Marcelo ^a   Orduña, Tomás ^a  

^a Infectious Diseases E J Muñiz Hospital   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE AGUDOS DR COSME ARGERICH   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Latin America; Meningoencephalitis; Nervous system; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; NIFURTIMOX;

BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CADAVER DONOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFUSION; DEMENTIA; EMBASE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVING DONOR; MEDLINE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCARDITIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PURPURA; REINFECTION; REVIEW; TENDON REFLEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEURITIS;

EID: 77951246014     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164110X12644252260637     Document Type: Review

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