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01.08.2006 | Correspondence
Distinguishing bacterial from viral meningitis: the critical importance of the CSF lactic acid: author's reply
verfasst von:
François G. Brivet, Frédéric M. Jacobs
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2006
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Sir: We thank Dr. Cunha for his attention to our multivariate approach of community-acquired bacterial meningitis [
1]. He suggests that combining clinical presentation with the clinical severity is helpful in distinguishing bacterial from viral meningitis according to the study by Durand et al. [
2], that meningoencephalitis is rare during bacterial meningitis (BM), that CSF lactate values are of interest for the diagnosis, and thus that there was no need to use a multivariate approach. …