Legionella pneumophila infection presenting as headache, confusion and dysarthria in a human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) positive patient: Case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Robbins, Nathaniel M ^a   Kumar, Aditi ^b   Blair, Barbra M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Encephalopathy; HIV; Legionella; Legionellosis; MRI; Splenium

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFUSION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSARTHRIA; EARLY INTERVENTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIXED INFECTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRAIN; CONFUSION; DYSARTHRIA; HEADACHE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINE;

EID: 84866501740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-225     Document Type: Article

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