Answer 100 - Infectious causes of dementia:
The following infectious agents cause dementia:
False a. gonococcus
True b. HIV
False c. Brucella abortus
True d. Borrelia burgdorferi
False e. HTLV-1
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.
