Emerging Infectious Uveitis

This book reviews the various emerging infectious diseases that show a significant association with uveitis, describing and explaining their ocular manifestations with the aid of color illustrations. In addition, it presents brief reports of further emerging infections that are associated with uveitis in rare cases. The coverage is wide ranging, encompassing diverse emerging bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal infections. Individual chapters are also devoted to important re-emergent diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis, with the focus on new data on epidemiology, diagnosis and management. Emerging infectious diseases are defined as “those whose incidence in humans has increased within the past two decades or threatens to increase in the near future”. Emergence may be due to the spread of a new agent, to the recognition of an infection that has been present in the population but has gone undetected, or to the realization that an established disease has an infectious origin. This book will be an invaluable source of information on all aspects of uveitis in these diseases. -- Publisher Front Matter....Pages i-vi Global Variations and Changes in Patterns of Infectious Uveitis....Pages 1-7 The Role of Infectious Agents in the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Diseases....Pages 9-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Rickettsioses....Pages 27-34 Syphilitic Uveitis....Pages 35-42 Lyme Disease....Pages 43-56 Cat-Scratch Disease....Pages 57-63 Tuberculosis....Pages 65-78 Leptospirosis....Pages 79-85 Other Bacterial Infections: Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE), Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)....Pages 87-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Cytomegalovirus Anterior Uveitis....Pages 95-109 West Nile Virus Infection....Pages 111-118 Chikungunya....Pages 119-124 Dengue-Related Ocular Disease....Pages 125-137 Rift Valley Fever....Pages 139-142 Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1....Pages 143-148 HHV6, HHV7, and HHV8....Pages 149-154 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Cysticercosis....Pages 157-162 Intraocular Nematode....Pages 163-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Emerging Infectious Uveitis: Aspergillus and Other Fungi....Pages 179-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-197 The Zika Virus: Review of Ocular Findings....Pages 177-177 ....Pages 199-203