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Routes of infection

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Microorganisms may reach the meninges either by:

  • direct extension - for example from the ears, from the nasopharynx, via a dural tear after injury or surgery, from a congenital sinus communicating with the subarachnoid space
  • the bloodstream
  • extension of a parameningeal infection of the brain

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