5 6 Positive MTB culture in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is definite evidence for verifying the diagnosis ... Patients with probable TBM develop symptoms and signs of one or more types of meningitis, ...

Rehabilitation Medicine Department, The Affiliated Changsha Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University (The First Hospital of Changsha, Changsha, China Tuberculous meningitis ...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is difficult to diagnose ... shorter duration of illness before presentation to hospital, and fewer CSF leukocytes – this suggests that mycobacterial genotype ...

Tuberculous meningitis is rare and comprises 1% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis ... In the light of an inconsistent clinical picture, with no likely explanation for positive NAAT and culture for TB, we ...

One patient with a posterior fossa medulloblastoma developed postoperative meningitis and another with tuberculous meningitis developed a middle cerebral artery infarct with both of these factors ...

aDivision of Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198, USA The gold standard for the diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis is the detection of viable ...

The patient's clinical syndrome correlated with her virological diagnosis and no other cause of her symptoms was found. Her symptoms were self-limiting and improved with supportive management. This ...

Serum PCR was sent in 11% of community-acquired meningitis patients - 23% were positive. CSF PCR was sent in 28% - 22% were positive. None of these cases had positive CSF culture. Conclusions Despite ...

Pharmacokinetic data of anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs in children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM), particularly among the ... Neuroradiology and microbiological examination from CSF/extraneural ...