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Inadvertently/experimentally if like all the pathogens known were injected into the spine. are they detectable in blood or just spinal fluid?% please
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Fantasy question: Homework, right? There's an anatomical barrier that prevents the microbes that produce meningitis (which is what you're talking about, I think) from getting into the blood (sepsis). The meningococcus seems to cross this barrier with ease. Most others don't (for example, a person may have CSF dripping with cryptococcus but none in the blood).
Answered 7/3/2014
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