List Of Infections Of The Central Nervous System
Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) consist of infections primarily of the brain and spinal cord.
They include mostly viral infections, less commonly bacterial infections, fungal infections, prion diseases and protozoan infections. Neonatal meningitis is a particular classification by age.
By anatomical site
- Brain abscess, Epidural abscess, including spinal epidural and cranial epidural
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis
By cause
There are five main causes of CNS infections, namely bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal, protozoan infections and prionic infections.
Viral
- Most forms of aseptic meningitis are viral in origin, though neoplastic and Lyme disease meningitis are also aseptic.
- California encephalitis virus
- Central nervous system viral disease
- Cytomegalovirus encephalitis
- SARS-CoV-2
- Eastern equine encephalitis
- Enterovirus encephalitis
- Epstein Barr Virus encephalitis
- Herpes simplex encephalitis
- Influenza encephalitis
- Japanese encephalitis
- La Crosse encephalitis
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis by Arenavirus
- Measles encephalitis
- Mumps
- Nipah virus encephalitis
- Poliomyelitis
- Progressive rubella panencephalitis, a late complication of congenital rubella syndrome
- St. Louis encephalitis
- Slow virus infections, which include:
- Rabies
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Varicella
- Viral encephalitis lists 37 causes
- Viral meningitis
- Western equine encephalitis
Prionic
These are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies like:
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle
- Chronic wasting disease in deer
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and its variant
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome
- Kuru
- Scrapie in sheep and goat
- Transmissible mink encephalopathy
- Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy
Fungal
Protozoan
- Amoebic brain abscess
- Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
- Malaria
- Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
- Toxoplasmosis
Post-infectious diseases of the central nervous system
These are not infections but post-infectious CNS diseases:
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
- PANDAS (controversial hypothesis)
- Sydenham's chorea
See also
References
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