Infectious causes of dementia:
F T F F F
Table 100
| Infectious causes of dementia |
| Infectious agent |
Illness |
| measles or rubella |
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) |
| HIV |
AIDS dementia |
| Treponema pallidum |
general paresis of the insane (tertiary syphilis) |
| Borrelia burgdorferi |
Lyme disease |
| Prions |
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease |
Dementia is the persistent, global impairment of higher intellectual function in an alert patient.
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