Laboratorial diagnosis of lymphocytic meningitis

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida,Sérgio Monteiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Nogueira,Meri Bordignon, Raboni,Sonia Mara, Vidal,Luine Rosele
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000500010
• topic: Cerebrospinal fluid; lymphocytic meningitis; viral meningitis; meningitis

Meningitis is the main infectious central nervous system (CNS) syndrome. Viruses or bacteria can cause acute meningitis of infectious etiology. The term "Aseptic Meningitis" denotes a clinical syndrome with a predominance of lymphocytes in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), with no common bacterial agents identified in the CSF. Viral meningitis is considered the main cause of lymphocyte meningitis. There are other etiologies of an infectious nature. CSF examination is essential to establish the diagnosis and to identify the etiological agent of lymphocytic meningitis. We examined CSF characteristics and the differential diagnosis of the main types of meningitis.