Radioactive bromide partition test.

Positive bromide partition test in the absence of tuberculous meningitis.

Five cases of lymphocytic meningitis are described where a Bromide Partition Test was performed and proved positive at levels usually considered consistent with tuberculous meningitis. Three of these cases were ultimately shown to have herpes simplex viral encephalitis, one had Listeria monocytogenes in the CSF and the fifth patient recovered without treatment and was thought to have had a vira...

Evaluation of adenosine deaminase activity and antibody to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 5 in cerebrospinal fluid and the radioactive bromide partition test for the early diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis.

A number of different biochemical and serological tests have been described recently for the early and accurate diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. None of these tests has yet gained widespread acceptance in clinical medicine or in microbiology laboratories. To investigate this problem we evaluated adenosine deaminase activity (ADA), an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that detects an...

Observations on the bromide partition test in the diagnosis of non-purulent meningitis.

In its earliest stages when treatment will produce the most favourable results, tuberculous meningitis may be difficult to diagnose clinically, since other infective non-bacterial conditions of the central nervous system may present a similar clinical picture at their onset. Since the bromide partition test and its use in the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis were described (Taylor, Smith and...

Partition-Oriented Test Generation

In this paper, we deal with input partition-oriented, model-based test suite generation. We extend existing control-flow-based coverage criteria, describe corresponding tool support, and present an exemplary evaluation based on mutation analysis. All explanations are substantiated by an example of a freight elevator.

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