Diagnostic Utility of Cerebrospinal Fluid White Blood Cell Components for the Identification of Bacterial Meningitis in Infants.
Ashley E LambSharla RentAsia J BrannonJonathan L GreerNyssa P Ndey-BongoStephen H ChoRachel G GreenbergDaniel K BenjaminReese H ClarkKaran R KumarPublished in: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (2023)
No single clinical prediction rule had the optimal discriminatory power for predicting culture-proven bacterial meningitis, and clinicians should be cautious when interpreting CSF WBC parameters in infants with suspected meningitis.