Dementia Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus with a Negative ELISA

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To the Editor: Dementia as part of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is becoming recognized as a serious clinical as well as diagnostic problem.1 In fact, patients are now being described who may present with serious neurologic abnormalities before the development of AIDS as defined by the Centers for Disease Control.2 We wish to report a case of progressive dementia that was not recognized as a disease related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, or HTLV-III/LAV) because of a negative serologic study of the patient's blood with the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).A 57-year-old unmarried man noted progressive memory loss, sleep . . .

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