Central Nervous System Infections

This tutorial is intended to introduce you to the symptoms and casues of infections of the central nervous system.

• Introduction
• Lumbar puncture and CSF examination
• Microscopy and culture
• Causes of meningitis
• Neonatal meningitis
• Haemophilus influenzae meningitis
• Neisseria meningitidis meningitis
• Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis
• Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis
• Amoebic meningitis
• Virus meningitis
• Encephalitis
• Rabies
• HIV and brain infections
• Polio and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Sub-acute Sclerosing Pan-Encephalitis (SSPE)
• Progressive Multifocal Leucoencephalopathy (PML)
• Bacteria and other causes of encephalitis
• Spongiform encephalopathies
• Brain abscesses
• Toxoplasmosis
• Tetanus and botulism
• Link to list of subjects

A PDF file of the clinical symposium notes is avalable.

Page edited April 2006

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