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Central Nervous System Infectious Diseases and Therapy
edited by Karen L. Roos, 770 pp, $195, New York, NY, Marcel Dekker Inc, 1997.
Arch Neurol. 1998;55:748.
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Thousands of people each year suffer neurological complications from human immunodeficiency virus infection even as ancient diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis are becoming increasingly problematic. Our understanding of many infections of the nervous system has steadily improved in recent years, and in 1997 neurologist Stanley Prusiner won the Nobel prize in medicine for his characterization of prion diseases. Certainly this book on infections of the central nervous system is timely.
There are 33 chapters by various authors, including separate chapters on such common conditions as bacterial and viral meningitis, neonatal meningitis, viral encephalitis, Lyme disease, and human immunodeficiency virus infection in adults and in children. Separate chapters cover polio, rabies, cerebral malaria, prion diseases, brain and epidural abscess, tuberculous meningitis, fungal infections, human T-lymphotrophic virus type 1 infection, and neurocysticercosis. The chapters toward the end of the book deal with general diagnostic and treatment issues; these include chapters on . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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