Cerebrospinal fluid lactate: Is it a reliable and valid marker to distinguish between acute bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningitis?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Prasad, Kameshwar ^a   Sahu, Jitendra K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LEUKOCYTE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 80052852955     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9396     Document Type: Note

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