title: HIV-II infection with initial neurological manifestation.
abstract: A patient with positive serological HIV-II reactions is presented, who lived for many years in North and West Africa and on the Arabian peninsula, and who developed asthenica, incontinence, gait disturbances, impaired mental function, personality changes and finally spastic paraplegia and peripheral neuropathy. He was shown to have a chronic inflammatory process of the central nervous system with cerebral atrophy.
authors.affiliation: Neurologische Klinik, Universität Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klemm
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Schneweis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Horn
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tackmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schulze
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral