Is bacterial encephalitis contagious?

Bacterial encephalitis pathogens are meningococcus, pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type B, Staphylococcus aureus streptococci, Escherichia coli, etc. The ways of causing bacterial encephalitis are as follows: one, blood type dissemination. The presence of infectious lesions in other parts of the body when the resistance is reduced, bacteria into the blood, the formation of bacteremia, bacteria through blood circulation into the intracranial, causing infection; two, direct diffusion. Adjacent parts of the infection focus direct invasion. 3. Transcerebrospinal fluid pathway. Bacterial encephalitis is not contagious because it can be infected directly by bacteria entering cerebrospinal fluid after lumbar puncture or brain surgery.