The clinical and laboratory diagnosis of acute meningitis and acute encephalitis

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 343-364

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute bacterial meningitis; Acute meningoencephalitis; Acute viral encephalitis; CSF Gram stain; CSF lactic acid levels; CSF PCR; CSF profiles; CSF RBCs; Diagnostic approach to CNS infections; Elevated ferritin levels partially treated acute bacterial meningitis; ESR CRP ratios; Herpes simplex encephalitis; Herpes simplex virus; Meningitis mimics; West Nile encephalitis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; GLUCOSE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GRAM STAINING; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEISSERIA; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84879635393     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2013.804508     Document Type: Review

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