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Infections of the Nervous System.

The ""gold standard"" clinical reference on central nervous system infections is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Third Edition. More than 70 leading experts provide comprehensive, current information on all infections-both neural-specific and systemic-that involve the cent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheld, W. Michael
Otros Autores: Whitley, Richard J., Marra, Christina M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2011.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Infections of the central nervous system; contents; contributing authors; preface; preface to the first edition; acknowledgments; 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; poliomyelitis, polio vaccines, and the postpoliomyelitis syndrome; measles and rubella; herpes simplex virus; neurologic manifestations of varicella and herpes zoster.
  • CYTOMEGALOVIRUSEPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6; B VIRUS; ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES; MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS CAUSED BY MUMPS VIRUS; RABIES; TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME; ACUTE VIRAL MYELITIS; POSTINFECTIOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; RICKETTSIOSES, EHRLICHIOSES, AND Q FEVER; Blank Page; TUBERCULOSIS; INFECTIONS DUE TO NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS.
  • Subdural empyema and suppurative intracranial phlebitiscomplications of infective endocarditis; iatrogenic infections of the central nervous system; whipple's disease; infections, including cat-scratch disease; mycoplasmal and ureaplasmal infections; botulism; tetanus; neurosyphilis; lyme disease and relapsing fever; fungal meningitis; space-occupying fungal lesions; cerebral malaria; toxoplasmosis; trypanosomiasis; free-living and parasitic amebic infections; helminthic infections; chronic meningitis; surgical management of central nervous system infections.
  • Critical care of central nervous system infectionsvaccines for viral diseases with significant central nervous system manifestations; vaccines against bacterial meningitis; subject index.