Neurologic manifestations of the neglected tropical diseases

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 349, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 20-32

  Berkowitz, Aaron L ^a,b   Raibagkar, Pooja ^a,b,c   Pritt, Bobbi S ^d   Mateen, Farrah J ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system helminthiasis; Central nervous system parasitic infections; Central nervous system protozoal infections; Neglected diseases; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIA TIMORI; BURULI ULCER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONORCHIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DRACUNCULIASIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FASCIOLA; FILARIASIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LOA LOA; MANSONELLA PERSTANS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARAGONIMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRACHOMA; TREMATODIASIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHURIS; TROPICAL DISEASE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

BRAIN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84923944450     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.01.001     Document Type: Review

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