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Meningitis Main Page
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Classification Viral Meningitis Bacterial Meningitis Fungal Meningitis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Seyedmahdi Pahlavani, M.D. [2]

Causes

Species	Common causes	Less common causes
Bacterial	Streptococcus pneumoniae Neisseria meningitis Hemophilus influenza Group B streptococcus Listeria monocytogenes	Staphylococcus aureus Klebsiella Pseudomonas E. coli Kingella Kingae[7] Mycobacterium tuberculosis Diphtheroids Propionibacterium acnes Serratia marcescens Salmonella species Brucella sp Nocardia Francisella tularensis Streptococcus suis
Viral	Enteroviruses Herpes simplexviruses 1 and 2 Arboviruses	Influenza virus Herpes zoster Human Herpes Virus 6 Epstein barr virus (EBV) Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus Mumps Cytomegalo virus (CMV) West nile virus
Spirochetal	Treponema pallidum Borrelia burgdoferi	--
Protozoal and Helminthic	Amebas (Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia)	Angiostrongylus cantonensis Gnathostoma species Baylisascaris procyonis Toxocara species Taenia solium