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Some Parasitoses Involving the Central Nervous System

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Parasitic Disease in Clinical Practice

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This chapter deals with the various parasitoses of the central nervous system (CNS) in order of taxonomic classification (Table 8.1). When viewed in a world context, Plasmodium falciparum is probably the most common protozoan, and neurocysticercosis the most important helminthic infection to produce severe cerebral disease. Many clinical (Bia and Barry 1986; Kennedy and Johnson 1987; Cook 1990), pathological (Brown and Voge 1982) and therapeutic (Leech et al. 1988) aspects of parasitic (both protozoan and helminthic) infections of the central nervous system have been reviewed lately. This chapter therefore gives a broad overview of this important group of human infections, but excludes parasitic infections of the CNS which are common in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Cook 1987; Leech et al. 1988; Pons et al. 1988) of which Toxoplasma gondii infection in the most important, and also neurocysticercosis; these are covered in Chapters 9 and 10 respectively.

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    G. C. Cook MD, DSc, FRCP, FRACP, FLS (Consultant Physician, Medical Specialist, Lecturer in Medicine, Professor of Medicine in the Universities of Zambia, Riyadh and Papua New Guinea)

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    G. C. Cook MD, DSc, FRCP, FRACP, FLS (Consultant Physician, Medical Specialist, Lecturer in Medicine, Professor of Medicine in the Universities of Zambia, Riyadh and Papua New Guinea)

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