From: Characteristics and outcome of spontaneous bacterial meningitis in patients with diabetes mellitus
Characteristics | Diabetic Patients (n = 106) | Other Patients (n = 609) | P value |
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CSF examination | |||
• White blood cell count, median (IQR) | 960 (2672) | 1008 (2670) | 0.723 |
• Protein, g/l, median (IQR) | 3.2 (6.4) | 3.4 (4.75) | 0.445 |
• CSF/plasma glucose ratio, median (IQR) | 0.31 (0.36) | 0.21 (0.36) | 0.079 |
Positive CSF gram-stained smear | 37 (34.9) | 255 (41.9) | 0.57 |
Positive CSF culture | 81 (76.4) | 429 (70.4) | 0.39 |
Positive blood culture | 67 (63.2) | 273 (44.8) | < 0.001 |
Etiology | |||
• Meningococcal | 11 (10.4) | 194 (31.9) | < 0.001 |
• Pneumococcal | 26 (24.5) | 154 (25.3) | 0.632 |
• Listeria and gram-positive bacillia | 19 (17.9) | 64 (10.5) | 0.033 |
• Gram-negative bacillib | 10 (9.4) | 32 (5.3) | 0.114 |
• Haemophilus influenza | 3 (2.8) | 16 (2.6) | 0.753 |
• Otherc | 17 (16) | 30 (4.9) | < 0.001 |
• Mixedd | 0 (0) | 4 (0.7) | 1.000 |
• Unknown origin | 16 (15.1) | 115 (18.9) | 0.415 |