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Aspectos dos líquidos cefalorraquidianos nas meningites bacterianas

1994; Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0037-86821994000200006

ISSN

1678-9849

Autores

Claudia E. O. Pires de Campos, Nilse N. Q. Santos, Mirian N. Takahashi, Isabel E. Kawamura, Silvia V. Damião, Tuba Milstein Kushnaroff, Evanil Pires de Campos,

Tópico(s)

Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Resumo

Samples of 1815 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were studied in a meningitis outbreak during 1989 in São Paulo, Brazil. Neisseria meningitis 56% with 44% type B, Haemophilus influenzae 17%, from which 72% in children (days to 3-year-old) and Streptococcus pneumoniae 14% from which 60% in children (day to 1-year-old) of 443 (24%) of all strains. Cytochemistry study showed: purulent or turbidity aspects in 70 to 79% positive bacterioscopy or culture of CSF; white cells count > 500/mm3; glucose < 45 mg/dl; protein > 90 mg/dl in 90% of all patients. We concluded that: CSF prognostic factors: (aspect and cytochemistry) were correlated with bacterial meningitis. Bacterioscopy and positive cultures were correlated to NM, SP and HI isolation from these patients (Goodman Test).

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