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
- Toxoplasmosis
- Malaria
- Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
- Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
- Amoebic brain abscess
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
- PANDAS
- Sydenham's chorea
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Guillain–Barré syndrome
See also
- Central nervous system viral disease
- Encephalitis
- Meningitis
- Neuroepidemiology
- Neurovirology