Symptomatic HIV infection of the CNS in a patient without clinical evidence of immune deficiency.
Major depression with psychotic features, dementia, and focal neurologic abnormalities appeared in a Haitian man without AIDS or other syndromes of immune compromise. Neurologic evaluation, including brain biopsy, was nondiagnostic, but CSF culture revealed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Beckett
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Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
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Manschreck
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Vitagliano
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Henderson
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Buttolph
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Jenike
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D000328:Adult; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006678:HIV / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male