Table 5
Non-viral causes of infectious encephalitis
| Modified from Chaudhuri and Kennedy,9 with permission. |
| Bacterial |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
| Listeria monocytogenes |
| Borrelia burgdorferi |
| Leptospirosis |
| Brucellosis |
| Leptospirosis |
| Legionella |
| Tropheryma whippeli (Whipple’s disease) |
| Nocardia actinomyces |
| Treponema pallidum |
| Salmonella typhi |
| All causes of pyogenic meningitis |
| Rickettsial |
| Rickettsia rickettsia (Rocky Mountain spotted fever) |
| Rickettsia typhi (endemic typhus) |
| Rickettsia prowazeki (epidemic typhus) |
| Coxiella burnetti (Q fever) |
| Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia chaffeensis—human monocytic ehrlichiosis) |
| Fungal |
| Cryptococcus |
| Aspergillosis |
| Candidiasis |
| Coccidiomycosis |
| Histoplasmosis |
| North American blastomycosis |
| Parasitic |
| Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) |
| Cerebral malaria |
| Toxoplasma gondii |
| Echinococcus granulosus |
| Schistosomiasis |
