title: Acute meningoradiculitis concomitant with seroconversion to human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
abstract: We report a case of acute regressive meningoradiculitis concomitant with HIV1 primoinfection. The clinical symptoms were mild and disappeared spontaneously. Electromyographic studies confirmed the regressive demyelinating-type process. The biological diagnosis of HIV1 infection was demonstrated by viral antigen detection, by the presence of the integrated proviral DNA after gene amplification by a polymerase chain reaction, and in particular, by the steady progression in the appearance of different HIV1-specific antibodies. This was shown using three different Western blot kits whose performances were compared.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Service de Médecine Interne, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paton
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Poly
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gonnaud
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Tardy
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kindbeiter
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tête
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Madjar
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D015153:Blotting, Western; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
chemical_list: D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic