Prevalence of positive syphilis serology and meningovascular neurosyphilis in patients admitted with stroke and TIA from a culturally diverse population (2005-09)

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 943-947

  Cordato, Dennis J ^a   Djekic, Sanja ^a   Taneja, Sanjeev R ^a   Maley, Michael ^a   Beran, Roy G ^a   Cappelen Smith, Cecilia ^a   Griffith, Neil C ^a   Hanna, Ibrahim Y ^a   Hodgkinson, Suzanne J ^a   Worthington, John M ^a   McDougall, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Meningovascular neurosyphilis; Stroke; Syphilis; Transient Ischemic Attack

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSYPHILIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84879023698     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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