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Written by international team of experts with a vast experience in the field. The authors are from both developed countries including USA and UK and from resource poor countries including India and Kenya. The book provides up-to-date diagnostic and treatment approaches. Written succinctly and simply.
List of contents
1. BURDEN OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
Charles R Newton 2. PATHOGENESIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
Diane E Griffin 3. THE PRINICIPLES OF MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
Sunit Singhi 4. NEUROIMAGING
Section 1: Bacterial, Fungal, Tubercular and Parasitic Infections
Niran Khandelwal Section 2: Viral Infections
Zoran Rumboldt 5. CONGENITAL INFECTIONS
James F Bale, Jr 6. FEBRILE SEIZURES
Brian GR Neville 7. VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS AND MENINGITIS
Diane E Griffin 8. HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS INFECTIONS
Richard J Whitley 9. JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS
Rashmi Kumar and Rupa R Singh 10. RABIES
Chandrakanta Kanta and Rashmi Kumar 11. HIV INFECTIONS
Jo M Wilmshurst, Brian S Eley and Bruce J Brew 12. ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
Pratibha Singhi and Sunit Singhi 13. FOCAL INTRACRANIAL SUPPURATION
Pratibha Singhi 14. TUBERCULOSIS
Johan F Schoeman and Ronald van Toorn 15. FUNGAL INFECTIONS
Sunit Singhi 16. PARASITIC INFECTIONS
Richard Idroand Charles R Newton 17. NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS
Pratibha Singhi 18. SPIROCHETAL INFECTIONS
Charles R Newton 19. MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONS
Ari Bitnun and Susan E Richardson 20. RICKETTSIAL DISEASES
Timothy D Minniear and Steven C Buckingham 21. NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS CAUSED BY BACTERIAL TOXINS
Sunit Singhi and Charles R Newton 22. POSTINFECTIOUS DISORDERS
John T Sladky and Hugh J Willison
About the author
Professor Pratibha Singhi, Chief Pediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopment Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Professor Diane E Griffin, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Professor Charles R Newton, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
