Types of fungal infection of the nervous system
The main types of fungal infection of the nervous system are:
- cryptococcosis:
- meningitis
- brain abscesses
- mucormycosis:
- usually a fungal cerebral vasculitis
- usually a fungal cerebral vasculitis
- candidiasis:
- abscesses of varying size are most common
- meningitis
- ependymitis
- aspergillosis:
- brain and spinal cord abscesses and granulomata
- does not cause meningitis
- coccidiomycosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis and actinomycosis:
- meningitis
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