**Meet the editor**

Dr. Sergey Tkachev graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Russia in 1998. From 1996 till the current time he has been the employee of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. The current research and scientific interests include virology, molecular genetics, biology and epidemiology of virus

pathogens and especially – arboviruses (including Flaviviruses) and Rabies virus. He is the lecturer and instructor of Big Biochemical Workshop at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University. In 2010 he attended a 2-week practice in Niigata Medical University, Japan. He is also the member of the editorial board of "Ticks and tick-borne diseases" journal (Elsevier) and the author of more than 40 articles and chapters in Russian and international journals and books.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Hassoon

**– 2011 43**

**Section 1 Encephalitis Clinical Diagnostics and Treatment 1**

Chapter 1 **The Clinical Management of the Patient with Encephalitis 3**

Chapter 2 **Cerebrospinal Fluid Abnormalities in Viral Encephalitis 21** Hakan Ekmekci, Fahrettin Ege and Serefnur Ozturk

Chapter 3 **Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: What An Infectious**

Chapter 4 **Acute Viral Encephalitis/Encephalopathy in an Emergency**

Chapter 5 **Review on Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak Cases in Nepal**

Durga Datt Joshi and Jeevan Smriti Marg

Guey-Chuen Perng and Wei-June Chen

**Hospital in Japan: A Retrospective Study of 105 Cases in 2002**

Hiroshi Shoji, Masaki Tachibana, Tomonaga Matsushita, Yoshihisa

**Disease Physician Should Know? 33** Ilker Inanc Balkan and Resat Ozaras

Fukushima and Shimpei Sakanishi

**During the Year 2011 55**

**Section 2 Encephalitis Causative Agents 71**

Chapter 6 **Arboviral Encephalitis 73**

Almas Khawar Ahmed, Zakareya Gamie and Mohammed M.
