title: Symptomatic HIV infection of the CNS in a patient without clinical evidence of immune deficiency.
abstract: 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).
authors: Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Beckett
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Summergrad
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Manschreck
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Vitagliano
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Henderson
authors: M L
authors: ML
authors: Buttolph
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Jenike
mesh_terms: 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