Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
Published on 17. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
552 pages
978-0-7506-4213-2 (ISBN)
Description
The editors are recognised world leaders in the field of infectious diseases of the nervous system. With the expertise of an international team of contributors they have provided a clinically focused text for the neurologist and hospital doctor caring for these patients.
* Agents covered include bacteria, prions, viruses, and parasites
* Details the newly recognized spectrum of herpes zoster encephalomyelitis and new antiviral drugs
* Analyses emerging brain and spinal cord cytomegalovirus infections developing in immunocompromised patients
* Agents covered include bacteria, prions, viruses, and parasites
* Details the newly recognized spectrum of herpes zoster encephalomyelitis and new antiviral drugs
* Analyses emerging brain and spinal cord cytomegalovirus infections developing in immunocompromised patients
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Neurology specialist registrars, consultant neurologists and infection specialists.
Illustrations
22 ills.; Illustrations
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-4213-2 (9780750642132)
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Editor
Chief, Neurology Service, New Mexico VA Health Care System; Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Burton Professor of Neurology, Glasgow University Department of Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Content
Cerebral malaria; Neurologic aspects of Lyme disease; Postinfectious encephalomyelitis; Cytomegalovirus infection of the adult nervous system; Herpes simplex virus encephalitis; HIV-associated dementia; Human prion diseases; Japanese encephalitis; Vaccines to prevent bacterial meningitis; Neurological complications of varicella-zoster virus; Neurological aspects of human African trypanosomiasis; Rabies; Recurrent aseptic meningitis; Tuberculous meningitis: Ehrlichiosis and the nervous system.