The Microbiology of Central Nervous System Infections

ISBN-13: 9780128138069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 344 str.

Spis treści

1. The current perspectives and wide spectrum of meningitis: the overall management morbidity and mortality2. Imaging of CNS infections3. Molecular diagnosis of CNS viral infections4. Vaccines against CNS infections: Past achievements and future challenges5. Metal nanoparticles in management of diseases of CNS6. Diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of bacterial meningitis7. Pneumococcal meningitis8. Mycobacterial diseases afflicting the CNS9. Tuberculosis of central nervous system10. Chikungunya and Zika at Central Nervous System11. Immunological determination of host-vector contact for arboviral diseases12. Diagnosis of central nervous infections with rare and emerging microorganisms13. Herpesviridae CNS infections: A focus on HSV-1, HSV-2, and VZV14. Tick borne infections of the CNS15. Recent advances in fungal infections of the CNS: From Etiology to diagnosis and management16. Brain injuries in toxoplasmosis17. Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies: Advancements and Hurdles in Clinical microbiology

O autorze

Dr. Kateryna Kon, MD, PhD, currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology at Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kon received the Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Award in 2007. She has ten years of teaching and fifteen years of research experience. She is an editorial board member of six international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Kon's scientific contributions include more than 100 publications, 6 books and 18 scientific articles. The main focus of Dr. Kon's research is antibiotic resistance in bacteria, coping with microbial resistance by plant essential oils and nanoparticles, microbiology of surgical and gynaecological infections, application of different statistical methods to analysis of biomedical data.

Professor Mahendra Rai is a UGC-Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow and former head of the Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India. Presently, he is a visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. His areas of expertise include microbial biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Currently, his group's main research interest is green synthesis of metal nanoparticles particularly using fungi and their applications as nanoantimicrobials against pathogenic microbes. Prof. Rai has received several prestigious awards, including the Medini Award by the Government of India. He has been featured in Stanford's list of the top 2% of scientists in nanoscience.