Emerging neurological infections /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Power, Chris (Christopher), Johnson, Richard T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
Series:Neurological disease and therapy ; 67.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Microbial evolution and emerging diseases
  • Ecological disturbances and emerging infections : travel, dams, shipment of goods, and vectors
  • Nipah encephalitis
  • Prion diseases and dementia
  • Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers : Argentine hemorrhagic fever and lassa fever
  • Cerebral malaria
  • Rabies
  • Lyme disease
  • Flaviviridae
  • Neurocysticercosis
  • The problem of human African trypanosomiasis
  • Enterovirus 71 encephalitis
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome and Camplylobacter infection
  • Latent and activated brain flora : human herpesviruses, endogenous retroviruses, coronaviruses, and Chlamydia and their role in neurological disease
  • Herpes simplex virus drug resistance - HSV thymidine
  • Drug-resistant bacterial infections : implications for neurosurgical and neurological patients
  • HIV-related neurological disease in the era of HAART
  • Gauging the threats : a conceptual framework for prioritizing research directed toward intervention
  • Immediate responses to new infections and the rapid development of a vaccine strategy
  • Future perspectives