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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.

 

 #73: Infection - Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Installment #5 [28:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (734)

Infection - Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Installment #5

Publication Date: Jun 8th, 2007.

Focus: Stealth infections, and the possible effect that ONE of the numerous hidden invaders has on Parkinson’s disease.

The bug is Helicobacter pylori. It’s back in the limelight. And Parkinson’s pathogenesis may be eased from its eradication.

And does herpes simplex virus play a role in Alzheimer’s?

Listen and learn about other concealed infectious entities possibly cohabitating, within our bodies, and causing varying degrees of stress on our physiological systems - our “psychoneuroimmunology.”

And last but not least (on the flip side): “Filth and Felicity” - Is our obsession with having a sterile environment for daily living contributing to us humans being a bunch of “psycho-enodo-neuro-immunological” wimps?
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