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On this page you can find information on referring a patient with a neurological infection or neuroinflammatory disorder and performing a traineeship on neurological infectious diseases. Furthermore, you can find the protocols for diagnosis and treatment of neurological infections in this section. You can find information on current research projects in ‘ Scientific Research’ page. Patients or family members can find general information about neurological infections in the section ‘Information for patients’. In this section you can also find summaries of studies performed at Neuroinfections Amsterdam, and links to useful websites, for instance the Dutch Meningitis Patients Association.
Protocols (in Dutch)   

 

Referrals/consultation

Neurological infectious diseases and neuroinflammatory diseases are often difficult to diagnose – the differential diagnosis is broad and most of the clinical parameters cannot distinguish between different disorders. We are always willing to consult on complicated patients with neurological infectious and immunological diseases. 

For such consultations, you can contact Prof. Dr. Matthijs Brouwer, Prof. Dr. Diederik van de Beek or Dr. Willeke Westendorp, and if necessary we can evaluate the patient at either our outpatient clinic or clinical neurology department.

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Scientific research

On this page you can find more information about our scientific research, with among other information about our clinical and preclinical research. 
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Traineeship neurological resident

If you are a neurology resident (AIOS) and interested in neurological infectious diseases and neuroinflammatory diseases, you can do a residency program in the Amsterdam UMC at our department. During the program you can gain clinical experience or perform scientific research in the field of neurological infections and inflammatory diseases, or combine research with clinical work. For more information you can contact prof. dr. Matthijs Brouwer or prof. dr. Diederik van de Beek. 

Open access MeninGene database

Our philosophy is that data acquired with public money should be freely accessible for other researchers in the field. Therefore, we enable researchers with a relevant research question to use the data of our bacterial meningitis database. This database (MeninGene Biobank) includes clinical data of patients, but genetic data of patients and bacterial strains as well. Furthermore results of protein measurements in the liquor of patients with bacterial meningitis are stored in the database. For more information you can contact prof.dr. Matthijs Brouwer or prof. dr. Diederik van de Beek.