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A patient is admitted to a psychiatric hospital after having been picked up by the police for making inappropriate sexual advances. A detailed psychiatric interview demonstrates deficits in memory, insight, judgement, personal appearance, and social behavior. The patient is witnessed experiencing a possible epileptic seizure. Over a period of several years, motor findings also develop, including relaxed, but expressionless facies, tremor, dysahria, and pupillary abnormalities. Which of the following tests performed on his cerebrospinal fluid would most likely be diagnostic?

ACSF glucose
BFTA-ABS
CGram's stain
DLymphocyte count
Microbiology
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