title: Amoebic encephalitis
text: # Amoebic encephalitis
  
  Amoebic encephalitis or amoebic meningoencephalitis may refer to several potentially fatal diseases that are infections of the central nervous system by free-living amoebae, often referred to in the media as a "brain-eating amoeba" infection:
  
  * Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
  * Naegleriasis, also known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
  