Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial CNS infections
  • Principles of antimicrobial therapy
  • Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid analysis
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Brain abscess
  • Cranial epidural abscess and subdural empyema
  • Spinal epidural abscess and subdural empyema
  • Suppurative intracranial thrombophlebitis
  • Infections of the central nervous system in the neurosurgical patient
  • Rickettsial and ehrlichial infections
  • Mycobacterial infections
  • Spirochetal infections
  • Neurological complications of bacterial endocarditis
  • Whipple's disease of the central nervous system
  • Neuroimaging of central nervous system infections
  • Toxin-mediated syndromes of the nervous system.