List of infections of the central nervous system
There are five main causes of infections of the central nervous system (CNS): bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal, and prionic.
Fungal
- Cryptococcal meningitis
- Brain abscess
- Spinal epidural infection
Protozoal
Viral
- Viral meningitis
- Eastern equine encephalitis
- St Louis encephalitis
- Japanese encephalitis
- West Nile encephalitis
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Herpes simplex encephalitis
- Rabies
- California encephalitis virus
- Varicella-zoster encephalitis
- La Crosse encephalitis
- Measles encephalitis
- Nipah virus encephalitis
- Poliomyelitis
- Slow virus infections, which include:
Prionic
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and its variant
- Fatal familial insomnia
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome
- Kuru
- Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy
- Familial spongiform encephalopathy
Post-infectious diseases of the central nervous system
See also
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