Figure 1.
Diagnosis among 230 meningitis suspects based on clinical characteristics and CSF microscopy and culture.
Figure 2.
Positivity rate of different diagnostic tests for TB among 207 meningitis patients.
Patients with cryptococcal (n = 13), bacterial (n = 7), and no meningitis (n = 3) were excluded, HIV-status was unknown for one patient. ZN staining was used for microscopy, Ogawa for solid culture, and MB/BacT system for liquid culture. Differences between IS6110-PCR and solid culture (p<0.001) and microscopy (p<0.001) were statistically significant.
Table 1.
Comparison of M. tuberculosis culture and IS6110-PCR results among 207 TB meningitis patients.
Table 2.
CSF and clinical characteristics of 166 HIV-negative patients with suspected TB-meningitis according to culture and PCR-result.