Tropical neurology /
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London :
Saunders,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- The History of tropical neurology / Charles Poser, Michel Dumas and Antonio Spina-Franca
- Sect. 1. Viral conditions
- Viral encephalitides / Gustavo C. Roman
- HTLV-1 / Jean-Claude Vernant
- HIV / Robert Colebunders
- Rabies / Devid A. Warrell and Margaret J. Warrell
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis / Subhashini Prabhakar and Mathew Alexander
- Poliomyelitis and other anterior horn cell disorders / M Gourie-Devi
- Sect. 2. Bacterial and Fungal Conditions
- Bacterial meningitis / Ammar Mubaidin and Milne Anderson.
- Tuberculosis / Nadir E. Bharucha and Roberta H. Raven
- Leprosy / Thomas R Swift and Thomas D Sabin
- Brucellosis / Raad A. Shakir
- Tetanus / Michele Trucksis
- Fungal diseases / Patricia L Hibberd
- Sect. 3. Parasitic conditions
- Cerebral malaria / David A. Warrell
- Neurocysticersosis / Noshir H. Wadia
- African trypanosomiasis / Antonia Spina-Franca
- Schistosomiasis / Pierre Louis Alfred Bill
- Other parasites / Peter K. Newman
- Sect. 4. Environmental conditions.
- Toxic and nutritional disorders / Nimal Senanayake
- Konzo / Hans Rosling and Thorkild Tylleskar
- Lathyrism / Redda Tekle-Haimanot
- Bites and stings: poisoning by venomous animals / John B. Harris
- Heat stroke / Mustafa Khogali and Samir Atweh
- Tropical malabsorption and its neurological sequelae / Gordon C. Cook
- Sect. 5. Selected aspects of neurological conditions
- Epilepsy / Marcos C Sandmann and Paulo R.M. de Bittencourt.
- Epileqsy services and social aspects / K.S. Mani and Geeta Rangan
- Multiple sclerosis / Charles M. Poser
- Neuro-Behcet's disease / Mohammed-Zuheir Al Kawi
- A Perspective on neurological rehabilitation / Suranjan Bhattacharji and Michael Saunders.