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Infections of the central nervous system / W. Michael Scheld, Richard J. Whitley, Christina M. Marra ; authors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheld, W. Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central nervous system--Infections.
- Central nervous system.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (952 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, map
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The gold standard clinical reference on central nervous system infections is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Third Edition. More than 70 leading experts provide comprehensive, current information on all infectionsuboth neural-specific and systemicuthat involve the central nervous system. This edition includes new information on botulinum toxin as a biological weapon and a therapeutic agent, neurologic effects of viruses causing hemorrhagic fevers, and infections that have recently become more prevalent or been found in new geographic locations. The updated coverage of therapeutics includes AIDS/HIV medications and other antiviral drugs, new antifungal medications, and vaccinations against Lyme disease and bacterial meningitis.
- Contents:
- INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- CONTENTS
- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION
- CEREBROSPINAL FLUID IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
- IMAGING OF INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS
- PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VIRAL INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- VIRAL MENINGITIS AND ASEPTIC MENINGITIS SYNDROME
- POLIOMYELITIS, POLIO VACCINES, AND THE POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME
- MEASLES AND RUBELLA
- HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS
- NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF VARICELLA AND HERPES ZOSTER
- CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
- EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS
- HUMAN HERPESVIRUS-6
- B VIRUS
- ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES
- MENINGITIS AND ENCEPHALITIS CAUSED BY MUMPS VIRUS
- RABIES
- TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES
- HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
- GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
- ACUTE VIRAL MYELITIS
- POSTINFECTIOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
- PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
- ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
- RICKETTSIOSES, EHRLICHIOSES, AND Q FEVER
- TUBERCULOSIS
- INFECTIONS DUE TO NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA
- BRAIN ABSCESS
- EPIDURAL ABSCESS
- SUBDURAL EMPYEMA AND SUPPURATIVE INTRACRANIAL PHLEBITIS
- COMPLICATIONS OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- IATROGENIC INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- WHIPPLE'S DISEASE
- INFECTIONS, INCLUDING CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE
- MYCOPLASMAL AND UREAPLASMAL INFECTIONS
- BOTULISM
- TETANUS
- NEUROSYPHILIS
- LYME DISEASE AND RELAPSING FEVER
- FUNGAL MENINGITIS
- SPACE-OCCUPYING FUNGAL LESIONS
- CEREBRAL MALARIA
- TOXOPLASMOSIS
- TRYPANOSOMIASIS
- FREE-LIVING AND PARASITIC AMEBIC INFECTIONS
- HELMINTHIC INFECTIONS
- CHRONIC MENINGITIS
- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS
- CRITICAL CARE OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS.
- VACCINES FOR VIRAL DISEASES WITH SIGNIFICANT CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MANIFESTATIONS
- VACCINES AGAINST BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
- SUBJECT INDEX
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4511-6745-8
- OCLC:
- 923528121
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