meningitis (redirected fromMeningitis, bacterial) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia men·in·gi·tis (mĕn′ĭn-jī′tĭs) n. Inflammation of the meninges of the brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache,...
Results The findings showed CSF culture negative in all 25 samples in group A, whereas there were biochemical changes suggesting bacterial meningitis in CSF of the subjects, but in group B in which all samples had not taken antibiotics there were 13 cases (60%) of positive CSF culture ...
CSF lactate is not affected byblood lactateconcentration.9,10However, the previous investigations have shown mixed results of the sensitivity and specificity of CSF lactate.11–14The purpose of our review is to assess the test characteristics of CSF lactate for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis....
Pneumococcal meningitis propagates to the skull. Skull channels are conduits for S. pneumoniae into the marrow. S. pneumoniae propagation in the CSF induces skull hematopoiesis. Every day, the human ventricular choroid plexus produces most of the 500ml of CSF. CSF outflow occurs via several routes...
ObjectiveThe Bacterial Meningitis Score, a derived and validated clinical decision rule, identifies children with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis who are at very low risk of bacterial meningitis. Low-risk features include the following: negative CSF Gram stain, CSF absolute neutrophil count (ANC...
Even in the presence of high levels of inflammation (as in bacterial meningitis), which abnormally increases the permeability of the blood–brain barrier, complement levels remain sub- stantially below those in the blood. As a consequence, when pathogens succeed in invading the CSF, they can ...
Four patients did not have the etiologic agent of meningitis defined, three of whom had previously used antibiotics, such as cephalothin, ceftriaxone, and clindamycin. Table 3. Laboratory characteristics of CSF of each patient with diagnosis of SCA and bacterial meningitis. CaseCSF WBCCSF glucose...
Pediatric bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that results from bacterial infection of the meninges and leaves some survivors with significant sequelae. Therefore, meticulous attention must be paid to appropriate treatment and monitoring o
Results: In a 3-year period, 37 CSF samples (diagnostic and follow-up) from 35 infants with proven or possible meningitis were available for MYcrobiota testing. MYcrobiota detected the presence of bacterial pathogens in 11 samples (30%), in contrast with the convention...
Patients were eligible if they were aged at least 18 years and had a suspected or proven bacterial meningitis by either (1) cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cell count of more than 100/µL and glucose CSF/blood ratio of less than one-third, (2) a CSF protein concentration of ...