Neurological Complications of Infectious Diseases

Rodrigo Hasbun, MD MPH

Professor of Medicine

Medicine/Infectious Diseases

UT Health McGovern Medical School

6431 Fannin St, 2.112 MSB

Houston, TX 77030

Karen C. Bloch, MD MPH

Associate Professor

Medicine/Infectious Diseases

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

A-2200 Medical Center North

Nashville, TN 37232

Adarsh Bhimraj, MD

Associate Staff Physician

Department of Infectious Diseases

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, OH

This book offers a comprehensive review of the most common infectious diseases that affect the nervous system. Written by international experts, it provides a guide to clinicians for accurately diagnosing and treating these challenging syndromes. 

Organized into six sections, the book presents didactic, up-to-date information on the following topics relating to central nervous system (CNS) infections: diagnosis and evaluation of the patient, bacterial, viral, fungal and mycobacterial infections, disorders of the spinal cord, and a myriad of miscellaneous infections.  Chapters specifically reflect and look to resolve the common obstacles clinicians face in the field, such as having unknown etiologies on the majority of CNS infections, insensitive and slow microbiological techniques, an increasing number of immunosuppressed individuals with atypical presentations and pathogens, and a lack of standardized diagnostic algorithms. 

A complex yet accessible addition to the Current Clinical Neurology Series, Neurological Complications of Infectious Diseases invaluably examines a wide range of infections that have neurological complications and sequelae.

I. Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Patient with a CNS Infection.-1. Diagnostic Approach to a Patient with Suspected CNS Infection.- 2. Molecular Diagnostics in Central Nervous System Infections.- 3 .Neurological and Psychiatric Side Effects of Antimicrobials.- II. Bacterial Infections.- 4. Neurological Complications of Infective Endocarditis.- 5. Neurobrucellosis.- 6. Neurological Complications of Syphilis.- III. Viral Infections.- 7. Arboviral Central Nervous System Infections.- 8. Update on HSV and VZV Encephalitis in Adults.- 9. Neurologic Disease in HIV Infection.- IV. Fungal and Mycobacterial Infections.- 10. Fungal Infections of the Brain .- 11. Neurocysticercosis and Other CNS Helminthic Infections.- 12. Free-Living Ameba.- V. Disorders of the Spinal Cord.- 13. Bacterial Infections of the Spine.- 14. Infectious Primary Myelitis.- 15. Post-infectious Encephalomyelitis.- VI. Miscellaneous Infections.- 16. Tick-borne Infections of the Central Nervous System.- 17. CNS Whipple's Disease.-18. Prion Diseases.