Infectious diseases of the nervous system: pathogenesis and worldwide impact

Infectious diseases of the nervous system: pathogenesis and worldwide impact.

The 2008 Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System: Pathogenesis and World Impact conference was held at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and was the first worldwide conference on neuroinfections. While viral encephalitis and bacterial meningitis are being actively studied in the developed world, much less attention is paid to the often fatal nervous system infections caused by neurotropic virus...

Infectious diseases of the central nervous system.

Neurologic disease is seen commonly in cats, with infectious causes accounting for 30-45% of cases. However, since a specific infection cannot be identified in 12-40% of these cases, it is essential that we try to understand these cases better in the hope that we can eventually identify the cause(s), and so determine how best to treat and/or prevent them.

Peripheral Nervous System Complications of Infectious Diseases

The peripheral nervous system and the pathogenesis of prion diseases.

Prion diseases are inevitably fatal neurodegenerative conditions which affect humans and a wide variety of animals. Unlike other protein aggregation diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and polyglutamine repeat diseases, prion diseases are unique in that they are transmissible. Therefore, prion diseases are also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. A number of prion diseases ...

Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System and Their Impact in Developing Countries

1 Hong Kong University-Pasteur Research Centre, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, 2 National institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States of America, 3 Department of Pathology, University of Sidney & Bosch Institute, Sydney, Australia, 4 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...