#90: Infection-Inflammation, Installment #7
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Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist.
Hear these reports:
- Rapid Test For Viral Meningitis Is First To Win Agency Approval: Xpert EV test detects viral meningitis in CSF in < 3 hours (instead of the usual 3-7 day wait).
- Serogroup 22 Emerging as Common Meningitis Cause (in > 60% cases): Is it time that the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine include this serotype?
- Infections Land Parkinson’s In Ed: Worsening motor changes in your patient? Consider infections.
- Premorbid Brain Changes Found in Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging can measure brain changes from CJD a decade or more before the onset of symptoms.
Weblinks:
- Prions + Retroviruses as Cause of Songiform Encephalopathies
- Blood pheresis procedure for cancer: remove TNF blocker cytokines and let the ‘inflammation against cancer’ begin.
- Inflammation, auto-immunity and types I and II diabetes.
- International researchers discuss evidence associating chronic inflammation with long list of diseases.
- Staph. Aureus and Borellia burgdorferi go intracellular, and possibly a number of other bacteria too.
Next week’s show: Our second installment of Movement Disorder Quarter – steadying guidance on motor disturbances. We’ll focus on latest neurology news related to Parkinson’s disease, including gene therapies showing promise.
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