title: Meningitis: distinguishing the benign from the serious.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Residency Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shelburne
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Statler
mesh_terms: D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction