Correction of ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples for blood content does not increase sensitivity and specificity for the detection of CSF infection

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 842-848

  Boeer, Klas ^a,c   Siegmund, Robert ^a   Pfister, Wolfgang ^a   Isenmann, Stefan ^a,b   Deufel, Thomas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c Institut fuer Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsdiagnostik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood contamination; Cerebrospinal fluid; Correction; Infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD; CALCULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRAINAGE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44949146082     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.167     Document Type: Article

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