Neuroparasitology and tropical neurology
This volume provides a comprehensive and contemporary reference on parasitic infections of the human nervous system.
| Other Authors: | Garcia, Hector,, Tanowitz, Herbert B.,, Brutto, Oscar H. del, 1959-, ScienceDirect (Online Service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Handbook of clinical neurology ;
114. |
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Table of Contents:
- Neurological aspects of neglected tropical diseases: an unrecognized burden
- Pathophysiology and characteristics of parasitic infections
- Mechanisms of CNS invasion and damage by parasites
- Immunodiagnosis of CNS parasitic infections
- Imaging of parasitic infections of the central nervous system
- Pathology of CNS parasitic infections
- Protozoa
- Cerebral malaria
- American trypanosomiasis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Entamoeba histolytica brain abscess
- Infections with free-living amebae
- Human African trypanosomiasis
- Microsporidiasis
- Neurological manifestations of human leishmaniasis
- Neurological manifestations of human babesiosis
- Nematoda
- Eosinophilic meningitis
- Toxocariasis
- Strongyloides stercoralis infection complicating the central nervous system
- Neurological manifestations of filarial infections
- Neurotrichinellosis
- Baylisascaris larva migrans
- Other helminthic infections: Ascariasis, Dracontiasis, Lagochilascariasis, Micronemiasis
- Trematoda
- Schistosomiasis of the nervous system
- Paragonimiasis
- Direct and indirect affection of the central nervous system by Fasciola infection
- Cestoda
- Neurocysticercosis
- Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis
- Other cestodes: sparganosis, coenurosis and Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis
- Other tropical neurological disorders
- Neurological effects of venomous bites and stings: snakes, spiders, and scorpions
- Effects of geohelminth infections on neurological development
- Nutritional disorders in tropical neurology.