Differential diagnosis of scrub typhus meningitis from bacterial meningitis using clinical and laboratory features

George M. Varghese, Anoop Mathew, Sudhir Kumar, OriapadickalCherian Abraham, Paul Trowbridge, Elizabeth Mathai

Neurology India · 2013 · 49 citations · 15 references

Abstract

This study suggests that clinical features, including the duration of fever and laboratory parameters such as CSF pleocytosis, CSF lymphocyte proportion >50%, and ALT values are helpful in differentiating scrub typhus from bacterial meningitis.

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