Central Nervous System Infections in Childhood – EDITED BY PRATIBHA SINGHI, DIANE E GRIFFIN AND CHARLES R NEWTON

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Edited by PRATIBHA SINGHI Professor and Chief, Pediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopment, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India DIANE E GRIFFIN University Distinguished Service Professor, Alfred and Jill Sommer Chair, W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA and CHARLES R NEWTON Professor of Psychiatry, St John’s College and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK; and Senior Clinical Researcher, Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Infections constitute the largest group among life-threatening diseases in children particu- larly in resource-poor areas of the world. However, infections are also an issue in resource- rich countries where even diseases preventable by immunization, such as measles, have been causing epidemics. Moreover, increase in population mobility has facilitated spreading of infections, and imported infections in previously immunized populations are becoming more frequent. As in other topics in medicine, our knowledge on infectious diseases has been subject to tremendous changes in the last decade: work on new vaccines, association of specific infections with specific genotypes, emerging resistance to microorganisms, and the avail- ability of new therapeutic agents and modalities call for frequent updates for all profession- als working in this specialty. A clinician can perform an extensive search on an infectious disorder using internet resources; however, it is rather time consuming and may not neces- sarily be holistic. While it is unrealistic to cover all developments in one volume, this book offers a concise source of the latest information on a large number of childhood central nervous system infections. Each chapter is written by a specialist with personal experience in these disorders and therefore provides pragmatic coverage of the topic. In addition to the chapters on specific infections, those on general pathogenesis and principles of manage- ment should be very useful in providing a basic understanding of the disease process and the underlying approach to management, while the chapter on neuroimaging will enlighten the clinician regarding the appropriate use of various techniques and interpretation of images to provide diagnostic clues to several central nervous system infections. This addition to the International Review of Child Neurology series is truly an inter- national collaborative effort and is likely to be a great contribution to the commitment of the International Child Neurology Association to education in child neurology. Banu Anlar Departments of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey