PMID: 8584095Sep 1, 1995Paper

C-reactive protein (CRP) and its significance in purulent meningitis

Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska
W PrzyjałkowskiJ Janeczko

Abstract

CRP level was determined in the cerebrospinal fluid in 40 cases of bacterial meningitis. Similar determination in serum was done in 32 of these patients. Aetiological verification was possible in 90% of cases. Meningitis caused by Str. pneumonia and Neisseria meningitides prevailed (52.5% and 27.5% respectively). The control group comprised 20 subjects. For CRP demonstration immunochemical and turbidimetric methods were used. CRP in CSF was raised in 62.5% of the study cases while in the serum it was raised in all of them. CRP detection in serum in acute phase of central nervous system infection is diagnostically important since CRP increase suggests a purulent process.

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