Cns Infection

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Reticuloendothelial system

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Viruses are cleared from the body by

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Acute Aseptic Meningitis

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Fever, headache, signs of meningeal irritation, predominantly lymphocytic pleocytosis with normal glucose

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Enterovirus

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Most common cause of Acute Aseptic Meningitis

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HSV2

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Secind most common cause of Aseptic Meningitis

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Enterovirus

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Fecal-oral route, family outbreaks, more common among children

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Echovirus and Group A Coxsackie

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Exanthemata, grayish vesicular oral herpangina

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Group B Coxsackie

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Pleurodynia, brachial neuritis, pericarditis, orchitis

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HSV-2 and HIV

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Cauda Equine, preceeding genital infection

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EBV

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Sore throat, generalized lymphadenopathy, transient rash

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Poliovirus

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Pain in the nexk, back and muscles

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Acute Encephalitis

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Perivascular cuffing by lymphocytes and other mononuclear leukocytes, and plasma cells

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Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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The gravest and the most common

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Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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Olfactory, gustatory hallucinations, anosmia, temporal lobe seizures, personality change

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HSV-1

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Almost always causes Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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Bilateral but not symmetrical temporal lobe lesions on MRI

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Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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Periodic Lateralizing Epoleptiform Discharges

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Acyclovir

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Treatment for Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

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2 weeks to 2 months

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Incubation of Rabies

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10 days

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Surveillance of animal for Rabies

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HRIG

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Passive post-exposure prophylaxis

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Rabies

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Fever, headache, malaise, psychomotor overactivity, spasm of throat muscles, hydrophobia, numbness and tingling, seizures

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HDCV

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Active post-exposure prophylaxis

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3-6 months

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Survival after onset of dementia if AIDS Dementia Complex is untreated

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AIDS Dementia Complex

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Most common neurologic complication in later stage of HIV infection

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AIDS Myelopathy

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Vacuolar myelopathy that affects the posterior and lateral columns of the cord

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AIDS Myelopathy

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Peripheral neuropathy, mononeuropathy multiplex, cauda equina syndrome, myopathy

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Toxoplasmosis

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Most common focal infection in AIDS

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Cytomegalovirus and cryptococcal

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Most common non-focal infection in AIDS

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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis

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Highly communicable disease

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Fecal-oral

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Main route of infection of polio

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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis

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Starts with a febrile illness followed by 3-4 dsys by muscle weakening and pain

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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis

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Lesions in motor gyrus, brajnstem and cord

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Sabine vaccine

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Prevention of poliomyelitis

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Measles

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Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis

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JC Virus

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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

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Short arm of chromosome 20

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Encodes prion protein

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Prion

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Ataxia, weakness, dementia, seizures

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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Rapid progressive and profound dementia with diffuse myoclonic jerks/seizures and visual or cerebellar signs

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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Widespread neuronal loss and gliosis with striking vacuolation or spongy state of brain

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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Fatal within a year from onset

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Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinker

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Rare, strongly familial, death in 5 years

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Kuru

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Transmitted by cannibalism, death in 3-6 months

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Fatal Familial Insomia

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Intractable insomia, sympahetic overactivity, death jn 7-15 months

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Cryptococcus Neoformans

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(+) Latex agglutination test for the antigen

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Candida

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Severe burns, diabetic patients, TPN

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Mucormycosis

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Malignant infection of the cerebral blood vessels

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Results from initial parasetemia of preganant mother or eating raw beef, contact with cat feces

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Toxoplasma gondii

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In AIDS patients, it is the most common cause of focal cerebral lesions

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Naegleri fowleri, Acanthamoeba

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Acquired from swimming in contaminated waters, inexorably progressive and practically always fatal within a week

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Cerebral malaria

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Rapidly fatal disease with fever, headache, seizures, coma, diffuse cerebral edema

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Transmitted by the tsetse fly

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Chronic progressive neurological deterioration woth reversal or disruption of the circadian sleep pattern

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Trichinella spiralis

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From ingestion of uncooked or undercooked pork

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Taenia solium

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Multiple calcified lesions in the muscles and cerebrum, seizures, multiple deficits

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Echinococcus

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Water and vegetables contaminated by canine feces

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Schistosoma japonicum

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Direct invasion of the nervous system blood vessels acquired from swimming in lakes and rivers