Increased S100B in cerebrospinal fluid of infants with bacterial meningitis: relationship to brain damage and routine cerebrospinal fluid findings.

Increased S100B in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Infants with Bacterial Meningitis: Relationship to Brain Damage and Routine Cerebrospinal Fluid Findings, Diego Gazzolo, Dariusz Grutzfeld, Fabrizio Michetti, Amelia Toesca, Mario Lituania, Matteo Bruschettini, Anna Dobrzanska, and Pierluigi Bruschettini ( Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Giannina Gaslini Children’s University Hospital, Genoa, Italy; 2 Department of Neonatology, Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland; 3 Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; * address correspondence to this author at: Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Catholic University, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, I-00168 Rome, Italy; fax 39-06-30154813, e-mail [email protected])