Clinical Investigation: The Presence of Viral Meningitis without Pleocytosis among Pediatric Patients
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Enteroviral meningitis without pleocytosis in children.
OBJECTIVES This study aims to describe the clinical characteristics of enteroviral meningitis in association with the absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis. DESIGN This was a retrospective analysis of databases of patients diagnosed with enteroviral meningitis by CSF reverse transcription-PCR testing. Presence of CSF non-pleocytosis at each age group was analysed by use of the two ...
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چکیده ندارد.
Association between cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis and enteroviral meningitis.
Mulford et al. (5) recently investigated the correlation between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leukocyte count and enteroviral reverse transcription (RT)-PCR results in cases of suspected meningitis. They found that CSF pleocytosis was absent in 30% of infants aged 2 months with a positive enteroviral RT-PCR result, compared with 2% of patients aged 2 months to 18 years and 0% of patients aged 18 y...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2160-8741,2160-8776
DOI: 10.4236/ojped.2014.44038