TY - JOUR AU - Mason, Shayne AU - Reinecke, Carolus J. AU - Kulik, Willem AU - van Cruchten, Arno AU - Solomons, Regan AU - van Furth, A. Marceline Tutu PY - 2016 DA - 2016/06/07 TI - Cerebrospinal fluid in tuberculous meningitis exhibits only the L-enantiomer of lactic acid JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 251 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - The defining feature of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from infants and children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM), derived from an earlier untargeted nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics study, was highly elevated lactic acid. Undetermined was the contribution from host response (L-lactic acid) or of microbial origin (D-lactic acid), which was set out to be determined in this study. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1597-9 DO - 10.1186/s12879-016-1597-9 ID - Mason2016 ER -