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. 2008 Jun 28;7(1):695–709. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1997.tb01084.x

Viruses and Rickettsiae

Margaret M Esiri 1,✉
PMCID: PMC8098399  PMID: 9034575

Abstract

In this review I shall try to provide a brief, up‐to‐date, account of the neuropathology of those viral and rickettsial diseases that are particularly prevalent in tropical regions. These diseases are not, however, exclusive to the tropics. Some, such as AIDS, are common in temperate regions as well, though others are closer to being exclusively tropical, such as some of the arthropod‐borne (ARBO) virus encephalides. The latter are dependent for their dissemination on an existence during part of their infectious cycle in insects which are, in turn, climatically and seasonally sensitive. This necessarily limits their geographical distribution. Factors that influence some of the other diseases are less closely dependent on climate and geography and reflect more the social or cultural conditions under which people live. Thus, diseases that depend for their spread on forms of human behavior such as promiscuity or drug abuse (AIDS), or poor hygiene and living conditions (polio, rickettsial diseases) or on contact with domestic and other animals (rabies) may occur in a more widespread distribution, for the tropics are not the only places that afford opportunities for these diseases to flourish.

I shall select for discussion aspects of the pathology of these diseases that are currently undergoing investigation but will aim to present these against the backdrop of more established aspects of their pathology. Recent reviews of the pathology of viral encephalitis can be found in Hamilton and Wiley (33) and Esiri and Kennedy (20) and of HIV‐1 infection in Price & Sidtis (78) and Scaravilli (85).

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