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