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Microbiological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: Phenotype to genotype.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Nov 2019
Garg Ravindra Kumar
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a commonly encountered central nervous system infection. Characteristic clinical, imaging and cerebrospinal fluid parameters help clinicians to make a prompt presumptive diagnosis that enables them to start empirical anti-tuberculosis treatment. There are several close mimic to TBM, such as partially treated pyogenic meningitis, fungal meningitis, sarcoidosis, meningeal metastases...
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