A study of the cerebrospinal fluid in atypical presentations of tuberculous meningitis.
Atypical clinical and CSF profiles encountered in TBM are highlighted. Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) were isolated from the CSF of 7 patients in spite of the complete absence of any cellular response and also from another 3 patients who had no clinical evidence of meningitis. M. flavescens was cultured from the CSF in 4 patients.
D000328:Adult; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*