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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2005; 03(02): 107-108
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557252
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557252
Case Report
Compulsive behavior and coprolalia after cerebral malaria
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09 June 2004
03 November 2004
Publication Date:
29 July 2015 (online)
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.