Routes of infection
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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