**Meet the editor**

Dr. Sergey Tkachev graduated from the Faculty of Natural Science, Novosibirsk State University, Russia in 1998. From 1996 till the present he has been working at the Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia on tick-transmitted pathogens study including tick-borne encephalitis virus, its epidemiology, molec-

ular genetics and biology. Scientific interests include virology, molecular biology and epidemiology of virus pathogens and especially flaviviruses and rabies virus. He is the lecturer and instructor of the Big Biochemical Workshop at the Faculty of Natural Science of Novosibirsk State University. In 2010 he had 2-weeks practice in Niigata University, Japan. The author of more than 30 articles and chapters in Russian and international journals and books.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 2 Viral Pathogens 59** 

**Part 1 General Problems of Epidemiology 1** 

Colleen Mikelson and Sean Richards

Antonio D'angelo and Maria Caramelli

Melanie Denizot, Vincent G. Thon-Hon, Shiril Kumar, Jim W. Neal and Philippe Gasque

Chapter 4 **Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption and** 

Feyzi Birol Sarica

Chapter 7 **Equine Herpesvirus 9 (EHV-9)** 

Chapter 5 **Herpes Simplex Type 1 Encephalitis 103** 

Chapter 6 **Virology and Pathology of Encephalitis** 

Hideto Fukushi and Tokuma Yanai

Chapter 2 **Zoonoses Surveillance in Italy (2000-2009):** 

Chapter 1 **Zoonotic and Animal Vector Mediated Encephalitides 3** 

Cristiana Maurella, Elena Bozzetta, Carlo Cantile,

Chapter 3 **Virus-Induced Encephalitis and Innate Immune Responses – A Focus on Emerging or Re-Emerging Viruses 61** 

**Encephalitis in Animal Models of AIDS 87** 

**Investigation on Animals with Neurological Symptoms 29**  Cristina Casalone, Barbara Iulini, Maria Domenica Pintore,

Gualtiero Gandini, Maria Teresa Capucchio, Arianna Calistri,

Nicole A. Renner, Andrew A. Lackner and Andrew G. MacLean

**in Alien Hosts by Neurotropic Equine Herpesvirus 9 127** 

**Induced Encephalitis in Nonhuman Primates 147**  Tokuma Yanai, Atsushi Kodama, Hiroki Sakai, Hideto Fukushi,

Takeshi Kuraishi, Seisaku Hattori and Chieko Kai
