Diagnosis of bacterial meningitis and septicemia by serum counterimmunoelectrophoresis
Braz. j. med. biol. res
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28(10): 1065-8, Oct. 1995. tab
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ABSTRACT
We compare the results obtained by counterimmunoelectrophoresis in samples of serum and cerebrospinal fluid with microbiologic methods for 3,298 patients suspected of bacterial meningitis and/or septicemia at Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Säo Paulo, in a retrospective study of the period from July 1988 to July 1994. Of the 415 patients (12.6 percent of the total cases studied) who were positive by the serum test, only 249 (7.6 percent of the total cases studied) were also positive when cerebrospinal fluid was assayed. Thus, 40 percent of the positives (5.6 percent of the total) were identifiable by analysis of serum but not of cerebrospinal fluid. Neisseria meningitidis accounted for 77.7 percent (129) and Haemophilus influenzae for 22.3 percent (37) of the positive results obtained only when serum was examined. These...
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Asunto principal:
Contrainmunoelectroforesis
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Meningitis Bacterianas
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Antígenos Bacterianos
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Neisseria meningitidis
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
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Estudio observacional
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Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Braz. j. med. biol. res
Asunto de la revista:
Biologia
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Medicina
Año:
1995
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