Meningitis in adult patients with a negative direct cerebrospinal fluid examination: Value of cytochemical markers for differential diagnosis

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Viallon, Alain ^a   Desseigne, Nicolas ^a   Marjollet, Olivier ^a   Birynczyk, Albert ^a   Belin, Mathieu ^a   Guyomarch, Stephane ^a   Borg, Jacques ^a   Pozetto, Bruno ^a   Bertrand, Jean C ^a   Zeni, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN; PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS MENINGITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957926121     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10254     Document Type: Article

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