List of infections of the central nervous system
There are five main causes of infections of the central nervous system : bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal, and prionic.Fungal
- Cryptococcal meningitis
- Brain abscess
- Spinal epidural infection
Protozoal
- Toxoplasmosis
- Malaria
- Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
Bacterial
- Tuberculosis
- Leprosy
- Neurosyphilis
- Bacterial meningitis
- Late stage Lyme disease
- Brain abscess
- Neuroborreliosis
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:
- *Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- *Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- *Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
Prionic
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- Fatal familial insomnia
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome
- Kuru
Post-infectious diseases of the central nervous system
- PANDAS
- Sydenham's chorea
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
