We found enteroviral meningitis (EM) to reduce CSF concentration of A beta 42 (median, 1051.1 pg/mL; interquartile range (IQR), 737.6-1559.5 vs. median, 459.4 pg/mL; IQR, 312.0-662.0, p < 0.001). In contrast, CSF concentrations of t-tau and S100B were not affected by EM. There ...
The purpose of a CSF analysis is to diagnose medical disorders that affect the central nervous system. Some of these conditions are: meningitis and encephalitis, which may be viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infections metastatic tumors (e.g., leukemia) and central nervous system tumors...
Cerebrospinal fluid C-reactive protein was above an empirically chosen level of 1mg/1 in seven of 19 children with culture-proven bacterial meningitis, in only one of 15 children with viral meningitis, and three of 139 children with no meningitis. All 10 children with partially treated meningitis...
specificantibioticswerecompared.ResultsViralmeningitisorencephalitis(VM)andpurulentmeningitis(PM)patientsusualhadhighfever(62%and67%).60%cryptococcalmeningitis(CCM)patientshadheadachewithoutfeverattheonset.TheincidencesofconvulsioninVMwerehigherthanthoseintheothers(63%).Theincidencesoffailingeyesight(40%),hearing...
A serum procalcitonin level >0.5 ng/ml had high sensitivity and specificity ( 90.1% and 97.1% respectively) in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. Conclusion: CSF procalcitonin level seems to be a valuable marker in differentiating between bacterial and viral meningitis....
Myelin basic protein—seen when the covering of nerves (myelin) breaks down, such as with multiple sclerosis CSF lactate—often used to distinguish between viral and bacterial meningitis; the level will usually be increased with bacterial and fungal meningitis while it will remain normal or only sl...
(PCR) was positive in CSF, and stool examination showed Rotavirus meningitis. MRI revealed no signs of encephalitis. Aphasia resolved in less than 12 hours with no relapse of neurological symptoms despite aciclovir discontinuation. This case suggested that the postviral headache and neurological ...
(2) detection of anti-NMDA receptor antibodies in CSF or serum. Exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) HIV infection, meningitis, brain abscess, prion diseases, cerebral malaria, brain tumor, or a diagnosis of a non-infectious central nervous system disease, such as acute demyelinating ...
She closed with a few key questions that need further discussion, such as the cell types that support viral replication in the CNS, the source of rebounding CNS virus, the possibility of the CNS-derived virus reseeding the periphery, and the occurrence of deleterious effects in the CNS in ...
Samples of patients positive for HCV, HIV and bacterial and viral encephalitis and meningitis were excluded from the study. Samples of patients affected by suspected or definite multiple sclerosis were not included in the present study, as they will be discussed in a dedicated paper. We used ...