Risk score for identifying adults with CSF pleocytosis and negative CSF Gram stain at low risk for an urgent treatable cause

Journal of Infection

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 102-110

  Hasbun, Rodrigo ^a   Bijlsma, Merijn ^b   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^b   Khoury, Nabil ^a   Hadi, Christiane M ^c   Van der Ende, Arie ^b   Wootton, Susan H ^a   Salazar, Lucrecia ^a   Hossain, Md Monir ^d   Beilke, Mark ^e   Van de Beek, Diederik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF pleocytosis; Meningitis; Risk score; Urgent treatable cause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRAM STAINING; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIAL MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879285380     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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