Relation of concentrations of bacteria and bacterial antigen in cerebrospinal fluid to prognosis in patients with bacterial meningitis.

Age Factors Antigens, Bacterial/cerebrospinal fluid Bacteria/isolation & purification Cerebrospinal Fluid/microbiology Child Child, Preschool Female Haemophilus influenzae/isolation & purification Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Listeria monocytogenes/isolation & purification Male Meningitis/cerebrospinal fluid,immunology,microbiology Neisseria meningitidis/isolation & purification Prognosis Streptococcus agalactiae/isolation & purification Streptococcus pneumoniae/isolation & purification

Antigens, Bacterial