Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial meningitis: Usefulness of various tests for the determination of the etiological agent;Apport des examens biologiques dans le diagnostic positif, la détermination de l'étiologie et le suivi d'une méningite suspectée bactérienne

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 581-605

  Carbonnelle, E ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; CRP; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOPSY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 68049143105     PISSN: 0399077X     EISSN: 17696690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2009.02.017     Document Type: Review

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