Infections 

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Virus   General features    Differential diagnosis    Individual entities

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• General features of viral encephalitis

List of differential diagnosis Head

• Viral encephalitis and encephalitis-like conditions
• DNA and RNA viruses that infect the CNS
• Viruses associated with congenital infections
• HIV related neuropathologic changes in adult
• HIV related neuroapthologic changes in children

Individual entities Head 

• Acute encephalitis caused by arbovirus
• B virus encephalitis
• Coxsackie virus meningitis and meningoencephalitis.
• Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, congenital
• Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, non-congenital
• Enterovirus meningoencephalitis, chronic and associated with agammaglobinemia.
• Herpes simplex infection, congenital and neonatal
• Herpes simplex infection, non-congenital
• Herpes zoster (Varicella zoster) infection
• Measles virs, delayed type of acute encephalitis (measles inclusion body encephalitis)
• Measles virus, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
• Poliomyelitis
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
• Progressive rubella panencephalitis
• Rabies
• Rubella infection, congenital

Bacteria   Differential diagnosis    Individual entities

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• Bacterial Infections of the CNS

Individual entities Head

• Abscess, bacterial and fungal
• Acute meningitis
• Leptospirosis (Leptospira interrogans)
• Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
• Neonatal meningitis
• Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)    

Parasite Differential diagnosis    Individual entities

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Individual entities Head

• Amoebic abscess (Enteroamoeba histolytica)
• Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (Hartmannella-Acanthamoeba group, Balamuthia, Acanthoamoeba species)
• Malaria encephalitis (Plasmodium falciparum)
• Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (Naegleria fowleri)
• Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
• Trypanosomiasis, African type (Trypanosoma ganbiense and T. rhodesiense)
• Trypanosomiasis, American type (Chaga's disease) (Trypanosoma cruzi)