Expressive aphasia as a presentation of encephalitis with Bartonella henselae infection in an immunocompetent adult

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 67-71

  Marienfeld, Carla B ^a   DiCapua, Daniel B ^a   Sze, Gordon K ^a   Goldstein, Jonathan M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bartonella henselae; Encephalopathy; Expressive aphasia; Neurologic complications

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RIFAMPICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN INFECTION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BARTONELLA HENSELAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APHASIA, BROCA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957344037     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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