AIDS And the Nervous System

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This second edition aims to reflect progress in the understanding, recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological syndromes associated with HIV infection. This edition includes a new, separate chapter on HIV-associated spinal cord diseases, discussion of identified brain and neuromuscular syndromes, reviews of research on the neurotropism of HIV, and expanded coverage of the neuropathology of spinal cord diseases, primary HIV-1 infection of the brain, and opportunistic infections and neoplasms. There are guidelines for diagnosis and therapy of cytomegalovirus infection, toxoplasmosis, crytococcal meningitis, neurosyphilis, rarer opportunistic infections, and opportunistic neoplasms.