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Central Nervous System Viral Infections

  • 1st Edition - March 2, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Karen L. Roos, Michael Wilson
  • Language: English

Central nervous system viral infections pose one of the greatest threats to humanity, as evidenced by recent history with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19), HIV, and others. Unders… Read more

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Description

Central nervous system viral infections pose one of the greatest threats to humanity, as evidenced by recent history with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19), HIV, and others. Understanding their effects, therapeutics, and prevention are a top priority for all. "Central Nervous System Viral Infections" reviews the mechanisms of viral infections, current viruses of interest, diagnosis, course, and therapeutics, as well as prevention. Post infection syndromes and complications are also reviewed. Coverage includes Covid, HIV, Zika, EBOLA, Marburg, Herpes, Measles, Mumps, Polio, and more.

Key features

  • Reviews the impact of viruses on the central nervous system
  • Includes pathology, diagnosis, clinical course, and treatment
  • Discusses post viral syndromes
  • Covers COVID, HIV, Herpes, Zika, EBOLA, and more

Readership

Neurologists, virologists, Infectious Disease specialists

Table of contents

Section I: Diagnosis, Course, and Treatment of Viruses Clinical approach to a patient with a suspected neuroviral infection Neuroimaging of central nervous system viral infections Perils and pitfalls in the interpretation of CSF viral PCR results Antiviral Therapeutics Post Viral Syndromes Section II: Susceptibility, Pathology, and Co-morbidity Immune pathologies due to viral infections CNS infections from immune modulator treatments Virus induced neuroimmunopathologies Neurological Events Following Immunization with Adenovirus vectors – eg VITT Central nervous system opportunistic viral infections Section III: Specific viruses Herpesvirus infections of the central nervous system Arthropod-borne neuroinvasive viral infections (West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis) Emerging arthropod-borne neuroinvasive viral infections (Cache Valley, Jamestown Canyon, Powassan, Usutu) Infectious myelitis From polio to acute flaccid myelitis HIV-1 Parainfectious/postinfectious encephalomyelitis Rabies HTLV-1 Zika, Chikungunya, Ebola and Marburg COVID Arenaviruses, including lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus Paramyxoviruses, including measles, mumps, Nipah and Hendra viruses Cytomegalavirus Dengue virus Varicella zoster Epstein Barr Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 2, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Karen L. Roos

Dr. Karen Roos is the first endowed professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. Dr. Roos has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology for over a decade, as well as on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology. Among her honors and awards, she’s received the Drexel University College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Society for Neurovirology Neurological Infections Award, the Distinguished Visiting Professor Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base and the UCSF Robert A. Fishman Award.

Affiliations and expertise
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

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Michael Wilson

Dr. Michael Wilson is Professor of Neurology in the Division of Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology and directs the UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis. He completed his MD at UCSF, as well as an internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Boston University. In 2020 he won the NIH Foundation Trailblazer Prize for Clinician Scientists. In 2023 he won the American Neurological Assn award for Clinical and Scientific Excellence (mid-career).

Affiliations and expertise
University of California San Francisco, UCSF, USA