FREE-LIVING AND PARASITIC AMEBIC INFECTIONS SHANNON MOONAH AND WILLIAM A. PETRI, JR. Central nervous system (CNS) infection with free-living and parasitic amebae is rare but life threatening. Three separate clinical…
INFECTIONS DUE TO NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA JEANA L. BENWILL AND RICHARD J. WALLACE, JR. Mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis have established themselves as human pathogens. By 1960, most of the common…
WHIPPLE’S DISEASE MATTHIAS MAIWALD AND DAVID A. RELMAN In a seminal autopsy report in 1907, George H. Whipple provided a thorough and articulate description of the disease that now bears…
VACCINES AGAINST BACTERIAL MENINGITIS AMANDA C. COHN AND NANCY E. MESSONNIER Three major pathogens—Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB), Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus), and Strep tococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus)—cause the majority of bacterial…
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PAUL D. GRIFFITHS HISTORY In the early years of the twentieth century, histopathologists studying stillborn infants identified the characteristic intranuclear inclusions in fatal cases of what is now termed…
POSTINFECTIOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS KAREN L. ROOS AND AUGUSTO MIRAVALLE Postinfectious encephalomyelitis is an acute monophasic disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) that occurs within days to weeks of a viral…
