Open a new era of Infectious Neurology discipline construction

Abstract

With the progress of medical and health conditions, the incidence and mortality of encephalitis and meningitis caused by traditional pathogens have decreased. However, due to the change of pathogen spectrum of neurological infection, the improvement of detection methods of neurological infection pathogens and the emergence of new evidence of pathogens causing neurodegenerative diseases, it is necessary to rethink the clinical characteristics and diagnosis and treatment of neurological infectious diseases (NID). At the same time, post‐infectious/para‐infectious nervous system diseases (PPINDs) that do not directly enter the central nervous system are increasing after the SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemic. Therefore, we propose to attach importance to the disciplinary characteristics and discipline construction of Infectious Neurology with NID and PPINDs as the two major themes, and to improve the diagnosis and treatment of NID and PPINDs through multi‐disciplinary cooperation and specialized training.

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672‐6731.2024.04.001