Dilemmas in the diagnosis of acute community-acquired bacterial meningitis

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9854, 2012, Pages 1684-1692

  Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   Thwaites, Guy E ^b,c   Tunkel, Allan R ^d   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; GLUCOSE; HEPARIN BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN; TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE COMMUNITY ACQUIRED BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRUDZINSKI SIGN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KERNIG SIGN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RASH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIFF NECK; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 84868596712     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61185-4     Document Type: Review

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