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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Infection, Central Nervous System
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Etiologic classification, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Treatment, Medications, Purulent meningitis, Brain abscess, Therapy of other types of meningitis, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Prognosis, When to Refer, When to Admit, Prevention, Pneumococcal vaccine, Meningococcal vaccine, References,
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Topics Discussed: central nervous system infection; meningitis, purulent.
Excerpt: | |  CNS infections can be divided into several categories that are readily distinguished by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination as the first step toward diagnosis (Table 30–1)
Purulent meningitis | | – 18–50 years: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis – > 50 years: S pneumoniae, N meningitidis, Listeria monocytogenes, gram-negative bacilli – Impaired cellular immunity: L monocytogenes, gram-negative bacilli, S pneumoniae – Postsurgical or posttraumatic: Staphylococcus aureus, S pneumoniae, gram-negative bacilli |
Chronic meningitis
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