Cunha BA. Distinguishing bacterial from viral meningitis: the critical importance of the CSF lactic acid levels. Intensive Care Med. 2006;32(8):1272–3; author reply 4.François G. Brivet, Frédéric M. Jacobs. (2006) Distinguishing bacterial from viral meningitis: the critical importance of ...
The differential diagnosis includes brain abscess113, tuberculous meningitis, viral encephalitis or septic encephalopathy, as well as benign conditions such as aseptic (that is, non-bacterial) menin gitis or sinus infection. Depending on the setting, malaria, NATURE REVIEWS | DISEASE PRIMERS ...
Results: CSF procalcitonin level in bacterial meningitis was significantly higher than viral meningitis (1.72卤0.9 ng/ml and 0.71卤0.04ng/ml respectively,Pvalue= 0.00). A serum procalcitonin level >0.5 ng/ml had high sensitivity and specificity ( 90.1% and 97.1% respectively) in the diagnosis ...
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...
Meningitis Score, a clinical decision rule developed by Nigrovic et al, [15, 16] has shown high accuracy and usability and continues to be evaluated with respect to its effectiveness as an aid to identify those children with CSF pleocytosis who are at low risk for bac...
1104 QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP) IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF) OF PATIENTS WITH BACTERIAL MENINGITISPediatric Research publishes original papers, invited reviews, and commentaries on the etiologies of diseases of children and disorders of development, extending from molecular biology...
Elevated soluble urokinase receptor values in CSF, age and bacterial meningitis infection are independent and additive risk factors of fatal outcomeElevated soluble urokinase receptor values in CSF, age and bacterial meningitis infection are independent and additive risk factors of fatal outcomeTzanakakiG...
erial meningitis … Dexamethasone is a valuable adjunct in the treatment of bacterial meningitis …Dexamethasone is a valuable adjunct in the treatment of bacterial meningitis …Inpharma Weekly -doi:10.1007/BF03320215Springer International PublishingInpharma...
In one embodiment, substantially free of waste products from the habitat can also mean that the microbial composition does not contain viral contaminants (including microbial viruses (eg, phage)), fungal, detectable mycoplasmatics. In another embodiment, this means that less than 1x10 to 2%, 1...
The accuracy of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in predicting bacterial meningitis is unclear. Purpose: To examine the predictive ability of CSF cytokines in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis in infants. Methods: This prospective, multi-center study included infants 120 mg/dL or CSF glucose...