Professor Pratibha Singhi, Chief Pediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopment Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK Professor Diane E Griffin, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAProfessor Charles R Newton, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK

• 1. BURDEN OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONSCharles R Newton2. PATHOGENESIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONSDiane E Griffin3. THE PRINICIPLES OF MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONSSunit Singhi4. NEUROIMAGINGSection 1: Bacterial, Fungal, Tubercular and Parasitic InfectionsNiran KhandelwalSection 2: Viral InfectionsZoran Rumboldt5. CONGENITAL INFECTIONSJames F Bale, Jr6. FEBRILE SEIZURESBrian GR Neville7. VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS AND MENINGITISDiane E Griffin8. HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS INFECTIONSRichard J Whitley9. JAPANESE ENCEPHALITISRashmi Kumar and Rupa R Singh10. RABIESChandrakanta Kanta and Rashmi Kumar11. HIV INFECTIONSJo M Wilmshurst, Brian S Eley and Bruce J Brew12. ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITISPratibha Singhi and Sunit Singhi13. FOCAL INTRACRANIAL SUPPURATIONPratibha Singhi14. TUBERCULOSISJohan F Schoeman and Ronald van Toorn15. FUNGAL INFECTIONSSunit Singhi16. PARASITIC INFECTIONSRichard Idroand Charles R Newton17. NEUROCYSTICERCOSISPratibha Singhi18. SPIROCHETAL INFECTIONSCharles R Newton19. MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONSAri Bitnun and Susan E Richardson20. RICKETTSIAL DISEASESTimothy D Minniear and Steven C Buckingham21. NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS CAUSED BY BACTERIAL TOXINSSunit Singhi and Charles R Newton22. POSTINFECTIOUS DISORDERSJohn T Sladky and Hugh J Willison

“The sections on management are very detailed, making this book of great practical importance and a must for all clinicians who are likely to encounter CNS infections.”  (Clinical Infectious Diseases, 5 October 2015)