The neurological manifestations of pediatric infectious diseases and immunodeficiency syndromes.9781588299673 The neurological manifestations of pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. infectious diseases and immunodeficiency syndromes. Barton, Leslie L. and Neil R. Friedman. Humana Press Inc. 2008 421 pages $139.00 Hardcover Infectious disease RJ401 Well aware that infectious diseases and immunodeficiencies are the leading cause of child mortality and morbidity in the world, but that little exists in one place about the neurological implications of such infections, Barton (pediatrics, U. of Arizona College of Medicine) and practitioner Friedman, along with a host of contributors, address a broad spectrum of viruses, bacteria, fungi, rickettsiae, spirochetes, microbacteria and parasites as well as cat-scratch disease and HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. . Their material on viruses range from the herpes virus to retroviruses, and data on bacteria covers bacterial meningitis, focal bacterial infections and parameningeal infections, the Shigella series and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, rickettsia rickettsia (rĭkĕt`sēə), any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas, lice (see louse), and ticks. and spirochetes including the Ehrickia and Anaplasma species, fungi including Candida and phaeohyphomycoses, protozoa including the Babesia Babesia /Ba·be·sia/ (bah-be´ze-ah) a genus of protozoa found as parasites in red blood cells and transmitted by ticks; its numerous species include B. bige´mina, B. bo´vis, and B. species, helminth helminth /hel·minth/ (hel´minth) a parasitic worm. hel·minth n. A worm, especially a parasitic roundworm or tapeworm. Helminth A type of parasitic worm. infections, primary immunodeficiencies, and basic principles of selective neurological treatments. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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