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Meningitis : causes, diagnosis and treatment / Grigoris Houllis and Magdalini Karachalios, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Neuroscience research progress series.
- Neurology--laboratory and clinical research development series.
- Neuroscience research progress
- Neurology - laboratory and clinical research developments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meningitis--Diagnosis.
- Meningitis.
- Meningitis--Treatment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Meningitis is an inflammation of the three thin membranes covering the brain and the spinal cord which are collectively called the meninges. It is a serious and sometimes fatal infection affecting the central nervous system and is caused by different bacterial and viral etiologic agents. In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of meningitis. Topics include the molecular diagnosis and epidemiological typing of bacterial meningitis; novel dissemination and invasion routes of bacterial meningitis; contemporary management of nosocomial bacterial meningitis in neurosurgical practice; meningitis associated with autoimmune diseases and Mollaret's meningitis syndrome.
- Contents:
- Bacterial meningitis : molecular diagnosis and epidemiological typing : a review / Ziad W. Jaradat
- Meningitis : causes, diagnosis, and treatment / Rewati Raman Sharma, Apollina Sharma
- Meningitis associated with autoimmune diseases / Masakazu Nakamura ... [et al.]
- Meningitis : causes, diagnosis, and treatment / Sandip K. Dash ... [et al.]
- Bacterial meningitis : novel dissemination and invasion routes / Aristotelis S. Filippidis ... [et al.]
- Contemporary management of nosocomial bacterial meningitis in neurosurgical practice / Moncef Berhouma
- Mollaret's meningitis / Poulikakos Panagiotis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62100-881-9
- OCLC:
- 846962536
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