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"This clinical reference on central nervous system infections is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Fourth edition. Over 70 leading experts provide comprehensive, current information on all infections--both neural-specific and systemic--that involve the central nervous system. Areas with si...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scheld, W. Michael (Editor ), Whitley, Richard J. (Editor ), Marra, Christina M. (Editor ), Goolsby, Julie (Editor ), Oberle, Kristina (Editor ), Orzechowski, David (Gerente de producción)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, [2014]
Edición:Fourth edition.
Temas:
Central nervous system > Infections.
Central nervous system.
Bacterial diseases.
Central Nervous System Infections
Central Nervous System
Système nerveux central > Infections.
Système nerveux central.
Maladies bactériennes.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Bacterial diseases
Central nervous system
Central nervous system > Infections
Internet Resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: approach to the patient with central nervous system infection
  • Cerebrospinal fluid in central nervous system infections
  • Imaging of intracranial infections
  • Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of viral infections of the central nervous system
  • Viral meningitis and aseptic meningitis syndrome
  • Encephalitis
  • Poliomyelitis, polio vaccines, and the postpoliomyelitis syndrome
  • Measles and rubella
  • Herpes simplex virus
  • Neurologic manifestations of varicella and herpes zoster
  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Epstein-Barr virus
  • Human herpesvirus-6
  • B virus
  • Arthropod-borne viral encephalitides
  • Meningitis and encephalitis caused by mumps virus
  • Rabies
  • Human prion diseases
  • Human immunodeficiency virus
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome
  • Acute viral myelitis
  • Postinfectious encephalomyelitis
  • Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial infections
  • Acute bacterial meningitis
  • Mycoplasmal and ureaplasmal infections
  • Bartonella infections, including cat-scratch disease
  • Rickettsioses, anaplasmoses, and Q fever
  • Whipple's disease
  • Tuberculous meningitis
  • Infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria
  • Brain abscess
  • Epidural abscess
  • Subdural enpyema and suppurative intracranial phlebitis
  • Complications of infective endocarditis
  • Iatrogenic infections of the central nervous system
  • Botulism
  • Tetanus
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Neuroborreliosis: nervous system involvement with borrelia species
  • Fungal meningitis
  • Space-occupying fungal lesions
  • Cerebral malaria
  • Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis
  • Trypanosomiasis
  • Free-living and parasitic amebic infections
  • Helminthic infections
  • Chronic meningitis syndrome and meningitis of noninfective or uncertain etiology
  • Surgical management of central nervous system infections
  • Critical care of central nervous system infection
  • Vaccines for viral diseases with significant central nervous system manifestations
  • Vaccines against bacterial meningitis.

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