Diagnostic Approach to a Patient with Suspected Central Nervous System Infection

Adarsh Bhimraj

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-69578-7.00014-4

Diagnostic Approach to a Patient with Suspected Central Nervous System Infection

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This chapter outlines the fundamental principles of clinical reasoning in neurologic infectious diseases and gives a practical diagnostic approach to various clinical syndromes of central nervous system infections.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Rational Approach to Clinical Infectious Diseases
Subtitle of host publication	A Manual for House Officers and Other Non-Infectious Diseases Clinicians
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	192-199
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9780323695787
ISBN (Print)	9780323695794
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-69578-7.00014-4
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

Keywords

autoimmune encephalitis
bacterial meningitis
brain abscess
central nervous system infections
cryptococcal meningitis
encephalitis
fungal meningitis
meningitis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis
myelitis
neurologic infections
neurosarcoidosis
primary CNS angiitis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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