Case Studies in Neurological Infections of Adults and Children

Tom Solomon is the Chair of Neurology and Director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool. As head of the Brain Infections Group, he is working to reduce the global burden of neurological disease. Benedict D. Michael is a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and currently working in the Centre for Immunology and Inflammatory Disease, Harvard Medical School, studying neuroimmunological processes in viral encephalitis; for which he has been awarded the BMA Vera Down grant. Alastair Miller is a Consultant in Acute Medicine for North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool. Until recently he was a consultant in infectious disease at Liverpool with a special interest in neurological infection. Rachel Kneen is a Consultant Pediatric Neurologist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool.

• List of contributors; Preface; 1. Occam's razor through the neuroaxis; 2. Between the head and the heart; 3. Thinking laterally; 4. No laughing matter; 5. Unusual cause for an expanding head circumference in a neonate; 6. No hard feelings; 7. The masquerader; 8. An old enemy; 9. A Vietnamese child who is floppy and falling; 10. Disseminated in time and space; 11. Double trouble; 12. Hiking into danger; 13. A runny nose, running into trouble; 14. An undulating fever; 15. Headache and fever after a safari; 16. Sent home with a pain in the ear; 17. Relapsing infection and a spelling bug; 18. Scratching the surface; 19. Cloudy with a chance of cytokine storms; 20. Ter-wit-ter-woo!; 21. Same family, different genus, new problem?; 22. The great pretender; 23. Word salad; 24. A mildly unwell mother delivers a very unwell baby; 25. A creeping weakness; 26. Preventable cause of peripheral neuropathy; 27. It's in the genes; 28. Sutton's law; 29. 'No milk for me please'; 30. More than mononucleosis: a familial or reactive risk?; 31. Return of an old foe; 32. The lethal masquerader; 33. Bitten in the Hampshires; 34. Is it all to do with his glands doctor?; 35. A recurring pain in the neck; 36. A new case of history repeating itself?; 37. Feeling a little light-headed; 38. A rare cause of coma that could run in the family; 39. A travelling salesman, slowing down; 40. A nasty, rare, and ironic unwanted effect; 41. A rash diagnosis; 42. Seizure in a seasoned traveller; 43. Stiff and stuporous; 44. Just unlucky or is some detective work needed?; 45. A case of missing the point; 46. Have I got a monster in my body?; 47. Not quite so reserved anymore; 48. Thought we had seen the last of this?; 49. Sick as a swine; 50. A tic in the (voice) box; 51. A forgotten itch; 52. Brain on fire; 53. Fitting and febrile – getting complicated; 54. A pain in the leg; 55. A wobbly toddler; 56. Popping problems; 57. A bad headache and an awkward eye; 58. Drowsy with difficulty swallowing; 59. Two types of shaking; 60. Diagnosing a headache: follow your gut feeling; 61. Floppy and falling when back home; 62. Big game; 63. A Busse–Buschke secret; 64. Tied in a knot; 65. Twitchy and twitching; 66. An itchy problem.