Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System

of the nervous system during treatment.- Tuberculosis of the nervous system in immunocompromised hosts.- Management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis involving the nervous system.- Outcome of tuberculosis of the nervous system and its coverings.- SECTION VI:  FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO TUBERCULOSIS.- In vitro and animal models of tuberculosis of the nervous system.- Future research studies.- CONCLUSIONS.

Moroccan Society of Neurosurgery (2007), the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (Traveling Fellowship Award: Nagoya 2007, Boston 2009 and Seoul 2013], the University of Mohammed V of Rabat (2011) and the French Society of Hospitals¿ History (SFHH) (2014). Dr Akhaddar is a member of the editorial board of the Open Neurosurgery Journal and Médecine du Maghreb and is a reviewing editor for many medical journals. He is the author of four previous books and five book chapters; he has authored and co-authored more than 250 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (more than 140 indexed in PubMed). 


Ahmet T. Turgut, MD, is Professor of Radiology at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Turgut¿s research interests include oncologic imaging, use of hybrid imaging techniques for early detection of cancers and imaging of central nervous sytem diseases. He has published more than 80 original papers in peer-reviewed journals and has authored 25 chapters in several textbooks in English. He is associate editor of two reference books on genitourinary radiology and pathology. Dr. Turgut serves as associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Imaging Science. So far, he has been reviewer for several many distinguished journals including European Radiology, European Journal of Radiology, British Journal of Radiology and Acta Radiologica. Dr. Turgut has been invited to be a guest speaker at more than 80 distinguished scientific meetings including European Congress of Radiology and International Congress of Radiology. He served as the Congress President in ESUR 2013, 20th Annual Meeting of ESUR held in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been honoured as elected-fellow of the ESUR in 2006. He served as executive board member and general secretary of the Turkish Society of Radiology from 2011 to 2013. Dr. Turgut has been co-chair for Eurasian Radiology Initiative, an international project which is believed to help access to the state of the art radiology knowledge and improving the standards of radiology practice in this part of the World. 

Ravindra K. Garg, MD, is currently working as professor and Head - Department of Neurology, King George's Medical University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow India. He has 25 years of teaching/research experience. His areas of interest include central nervous system infections, like, tuberculous meningitis, neurocysticercosis, Japanese encephalitis, dengue viral infections, leprosy and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. He is a member of editorial board of several premier journals including BMC Neurology, Medicine, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology and Neurology India. For BMC Neurology he is performing duties of section editor for epilepsy subsection. He has approximately 400 publications to his credit. He edited a multi-authored book on Tropical Neurology. He is active member of many scientific societies like American Academy of Neurology, Neurological Society of India, Indian Academy of Neurology, Indian Epilepsy Association and Physicians' Association of India. Dr Garg has a vast experience of dealing with tropical CNS infections.