This book offers a comprehensive review of the most common infectious diseases that affect the nervous system. Written by international experts, it provides a guide to clinicians for accurately diagnosing and treating these challenging syndromes.

I. Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Patient with a CNS Infection.-1. Diagnostic Approach to a Patient with Suspected CNS Infection.- 2. Molecular Diagnostics in Central Nervous System Infections.- 3 .Neurological and Psychiatric Side Effects of Antimicrobials.- II. Bacterial Infections.- 4. Neurological Complications of Infective Endocarditis.- 5. Neurobrucellosis.- 6. Neurological Complications of Syphilis.- III. Viral Infections.- 7. Arboviral Central Nervous System Infections.- 8. Update on HSV and VZV Encephalitis in Adults.- 9. Neurologic Disease in HIV Infection.- IV. Fungal and Mycobacterial Infections.- 10. Fungal Infections of the Brain .- 11. Neurocysticercosis and Other CNS Helminthic Infections.- 12. Free-Living Ameba.- V. Disorders of the Spinal Cord.- 13. Bacterial Infections of the Spine.- 14. Infectious Primary Myelitis.- 15. Post-infectious Encephalomyelitis.- VI. Miscellaneous Infections.- 16. Tick-borne Infections of the Central Nervous System.- 17. CNS Whipple's Disease.-18. Prion Diseases.¿