neuroinfectiology

/ˌnʊəɹoʊˌɪnfɛkʃiˈɒlədʒi/

noun

An interdisciplinary field focusing on infections of the nervous system, encompassing the study of pathogen-host interactions, immune responses, and the resulting neurological consequences. It integrates aspects of neurology, infectious diseases, immunology, and molecular biology to understand and manage central nervous system (CNS) infections.

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Meanings

nounneuroinfectiology (uncountable)
  1. uncountableinfectious diseasesmedicineAn interdisciplinary field focusing on infections of the nervous system, encompassing the study of pathogen-host interactions, immune responses, and the resulting neurological consequences. It integrates aspects of neurology, infectious diseases, immunology, and molecular biology to understand and manage central nervous system (CNS) infections.

    This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Förderstiftung, the DFG (CNMPB), EXTRABRAIN EU-FP7, and the Niedersachsen-Research Network on Neuroinfectiology (N-RENNT).

    2017, Robert Weissert, Fabienne Brilot, editors, Induction of Central Nervous System Disease by the Adaptive Immune Response (Frontiers Research Topics), Frontiers Media SA, page 12
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    Since 2018, she is junior professor for Alternatives and Complementary Methods to Animal Experiments at TiHo with her research focusing on development of stem cell-based in vitro assays on the field of neurotoxicology and neuroinfectionology.

    2024, Pierre-Yves Lozach, editor, Rift Valley Fever Virus: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology; 2824), Pierre-Yves Lozach, page xxxi

    Asparouh Iliev, a Bulgarian specialist in molecular neuroinfectiology from the University of Bern, has praised the two RNA vaccines, characterizing them as extremely safe and also regarding them as very similar to each other.

    2025 March 29, Wikipedia contributors, “COVID-19 vaccination in Bulgaria”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

Origin

From neuro- + infectiology.

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