Stroke in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus and syphilis treated with penicillin and antiretroviral therapy

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 442-444

  Bucher, Joy B ^a   Golden, Matthew R ^b,c   Heald, Alison E ^b   Marra, Christina M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATAZANAVIR; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EMTRICITABINE PLUS TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL; LAMIVUDINE; PENICILLIN G; PROBENECID; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; RITONAVIR; TENOFOVIR;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; REAGIN TEST; STROKE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; PENICILLINS; STROKE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 79954571645     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181ffa5d0     Document Type: Article

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