Evaluation on a modified Ziehl-Neelsen stainin the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis / 中国神经精神疾病杂志
Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases
; (12): 149-152, 2014.
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| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-447500
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ABSTRACT
Objective Toevaluatea modified Ziehl-Neelsen(Z-N) stain in the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid specimens from 35 patients were stained by using the modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining. Re-sults The positive rate was 94.29% in 35 patients with tuberculous meningitisand the intracellular acid-fast bacilli was detected in 53.40%of all specimens. One case was stained positive in 15 patients with non-tuberculous meningitis. Con-clusion The modified Ziehl-Neelsen stain not only significantly improves the detection rates of tuberculous meningitisbut alsois able to identify intracellular M.tuberculosisin cerebrospinal fluidspecimen.Thus, the modified Z-N stain can be a convenient tool for diagnosing tuberculous meningitis.
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Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases
Year:
2014
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Article