1. Compulsive behavior and coprolalia after cerebral malaria
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Samuel Maling, Justus Byarugaba, and Richard Idro
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae ,Tics ,Streptococcus ,business.industry ,Coprolalia ,Chorea ,medicine.disease_cause ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Cerebral Malaria ,Compulsive behavior ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Immunology ,Basal ganglia ,medicine ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Neuro-pyschiatric symptoms such as chorea, tics, and obsessive-compulsive disorders have been documented with group A, beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Herpes simplex infections, presumably through autoimmune damage to basal ganglia. No such association has previously been described with parasitic infections. We present a child who developed compulsive behavior and coprolalia after recovery from cerebral malaria.
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- 2015
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