Differentiation of tuberculous meningitis from acute bacterial meningitis using simple clinical and laboratory parameters

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-278

  Youssef, Fouad G ^a   Afifi, Salma A ^a   Azab, Adel M ^a   Wasfy, Momtaz M ^a   Abdel Aziz, Khalid M ^a   Parker, Tina M ^a   Oun, Saeid A ^b   Jobanputra, Nishith N ^c   Hajjeh, Rana A ^a,d  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis in Egypt; Early diagnosis of TBM; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EGYPT; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 33746603545     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.01.027     Document Type: Article

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