About the Author

Whitley, Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION
CHAPTER 2 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 3 IMAGING OF INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 4 PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VIRAL INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 5 VIRAL MENINGITIS AND ASEPTIC MENINGITIS SYNDROME
CHAPTER 6 ENCEPHALITIS
CHAPTER 7 POLIOMYELITIS, POLIO VACCINES, AND THE POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME
CHAPTER 8 MEASLES AND RUBELLA
CHAPTER 9 HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
CHAPTER 10 NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF VARICELLA AND HERPES ZOSTER
CHAPTER 11 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
CHAPTER 12 EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS
CHAPTER 13 HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6
CHAPTER 14 B VIRUS
CHAPTER 15 ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHAUTIDES
CHAPTER 16 MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS CAUSED BY MUMPS VIRUS
CHAPTER 17 RABIES
CHAPTER 18 HUMAN PRION DISEASES
CHAPTER 19 HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
CHAPTER 20 GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME
CHAPTER 21 ACUTE VIRAL MYELITIS
CHAPTER 22 POSTINFECTIOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
CHAPTER 23 PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 24 ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
CHAPTER 25 MYCOPLASMAL AND UREAPLASMAL INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 26 BARTONELLA INFECTIONS, INCLUDING CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
CHAPTER 27 RICKETTS10SES, ANAPLASMOSES, AND Q FEVER
CHAPTER 28 WHIPPLE’S DISEASE
CHAPTER 29 TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS
CHAPTER 30 INFECTIONS DUE TO NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA
CHAPTER 31 BRAIN ABSCESS
CHAPTER 32 EPIDURAL ABSCESS
CHAPTER 33 SUBDURAL EMPYEMA AND SUPPURATIVE INTRACRANIAL PHLEBITIS
CHAPTER 34 COMPLICATIONS OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
CHAPTER 35 IATROGENIC INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CHAPTER 36 BOTULISM
CHAPTER 37 TETANUS
CHAPTER 38 NEUROSYPHILIS
CHAPTER 39 NEUROBORRELIOSIS: NERVOUS SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT WITH BORRELIA SPECIES
CHAPTER 40 FUNGAL MENINGITIS
CHAPTER 41 SPACE-OCCUPYING FUNGAL LESIONS
CHAPTER 42 CEREBRAL MALARIA
CHAPTER 43 TOXOPLASMA GONDII AND TOXOPLASMOSIS
CHAPTER 44 TRYPANOSOMIASIS
CHAPTER 45 FREE-LIVING AND PARASITIC AMEBIC INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 46 HELMINTHIC INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 47 CHRONIC MENINGITIS SYNDROME AND MENINGITIS OF NONINFECTIVE OR UNCERTAIN ETIOLOGY
CHAPTER 48 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 49 CRITICAL CARE OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
CHAPTER 50 VACCINES FOR VIRAL DISEASES WITH SIGNIFICANT CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MANIFESTATIONS
CHAPTER 51 VACCINES AGAINST BACTERIAL MENINGITIS