Patients | Reason for assigning patients to the ‘Confirmed TBM’ category | |
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88 patients | 83 patients | Patients admitted to hospital for the first time and were culture positive |
5 patients | Known patients, where culture positivity was determined in a previous admission during the 2009 – 2010 period; the patient still fell within the 9–12 months treatment period; the CSF specimen in the current admission was negative on culture | |
4 patients | Patients were positive for acid-fast bacilli on microscopy onlya |