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This book describes the anatomy of the meninges and the clinical signs and symptoms of meningitis caused by bacterial (mostly), viral, and fungal pathogens. Individual organisms that cause meningitis worldwide are dealt with in specific chapters, describing in detail how these pathogens interact with the human host at both molecular and cellular levels. It provides a thorough understanding of bacterial virulence factors, adhesion and invasion mechanisms, the nature of known host cell receptors and the host cell response.
A history of bacterial meningitis from antiquity to modern times / Myron Christodoulides -- Anatomy of the meninges : structural and functional aspects / Roy O. Weller -- Evidence based clinical examination of meningitis / Sarah Curtis -- Viral meningitis / David N. Irani -- Pathogenesis of cerebrospinal meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis / Mathieu Coureuil, Florence Miller, Olivier Join-Lambert, Hervé Lécuyer, Sandrine Bourdoulous, Stefano Marullo and Xavier Nassif -- Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis / Matthias Klein, Sven Hammerschmidt, and Uwe Koedel -- Haemophilus influenzae meningitis / Darryl J. Hill and Myron Christodoulides -- Escherichia coli meningitis / Kwang Sik Kim -- Group B streptococcus meningitis / Victor Nizet and Kelly S. Doran -- Chronic meningitis / Erich Schmutzhard and Raimund Helbok -- The pathophysiology of tuberculous meningitis / Guy Thwaites -- Neurosyphilis / Wim Ang -- Streptococcus suis meningitis / Marcelo Gottschalk, Nahuel Fittipaldi, and Mariela Segura -- Listeria monocytogenes : an intracellular pathogen of monocytes and the central nervous system / Nancy E. Freitag, Michael S. Bronze, and Douglas A. Drevets -- Meningitis in neuroborreliosis / Diego Cadavid -- Nosocomial meningitis / Ronny Beer and Bettina Pfausler -- Inflammation in the subarachnoid space / Myron Christodoulides.
edited by Myron Christodoulides, Neisseria Research Group, Molecular Microbiology, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000)
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Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000)
Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; v. 26