Offering a clear and authoritative overview of recent developments in microbiology and neuroscience, this reference describes factors contributing to the emergence and resurgence of neurological infections-studying both new and drug-resistant pathogens, as well as long-term prevention and control strategies for these diseases.
Author(s): Christopher Power, Richard T. Johnson
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 536
0824754239......Page 1
Contents......Page 12
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Contributors......Page 26
1 Microbial Evolution and Emerging Diseases......Page 30
2 Ecological Disturbances and Emerging Infections: Travel, Dams, Shipment of Goods, and Vectors......Page 64
3 Nipah Encephalitis......Page 88
4 Prion Diseases and Dementia......Page 106
5 Arenaviral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever and Lassa Fever......Page 144
6 Cerebral Malaria......Page 174
7 Rabies......Page 218
8 Lyme Disease......Page 236
9 Flaviviridae......Page 268
10 Neurocysticercosis......Page 290
11 The Problem of Human African Trypanosomiasis......Page 318
12 Enterovirus 71 Encephalitis......Page 336
13 Guillain–Barré Syndrome and......Page 356
14 Latent and Activated Brain Flora: Human Herpesviruses, Endogenous Retroviruses, Coronaviruses, and Chlamydia and Their Role in Neurological Disease......Page 392
15 Herpes Simplex Virus Drug Resistance—HSV Thymidine Kinase Mutants......Page 426
16 Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections: Implications for Neurosurgical and Neurological Patients......Page 444
17 HIV-Related Neurological Disease in the Era of HAART......Page 456
18 Gauging the Threats: A Conceptual Framework for Prioritizing Research Directed Toward Intervention......Page 482
19 Immediate Responses to New Infections and the Rapid Development of a Vaccine Strategy......Page 500
20 Future Perspectives......Page 522
Index......Page 528
Back cover......Page 539
