Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: What is the optimal method?

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 633-637

  Baron, Ellen Jo ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture, bacterial; Meningitis; Molecular testing; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GAUCHER DISEASE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 33645789819     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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