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Isolation of Exosomes from the Plasma of HIV-1 Positive Individuals
Published on: January 5, 2016
[HIV and schizophrenia]
J Santos González1, A Rivero Román, C Gálvez Contreras
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Málaga.
Abstract:
We report five cases of psychosis in patients with antibody to human immunodeficiency virus. All patients was man and intravenous drug abuser. The age range was 22 from 31 years with a mean of 25 years. In all cases acute schizophrenia was the first clinical picture of the HIV. Four patients had opportunistic infections and AIDS-Dementia Complex months later. If there is a genuine biological association between HIV carriage and schizophrenia illness, then HIV infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of such an illness.
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