Five students of a private school at Kalamassery in Ernakulam district of Kerala have sought medical treatment after showing symptoms of viral meningitis. The condition of the children remains stable, ...

About 6 weeks after discharge, CSF analysis revealed RBC 2/mm 3 ... and the inability to prove amebae as the etiology of his meningitis. Then a diagnostic test was performed.

Viruses that commonly cause aseptic meningitis include: Most of the time, the virus is not identified with tests, even if a cerebrospinal fluid analysis is done on a lumbar puncture sample.

However, the clinical symptoms, laboratory and neuroimaging findings of CNS TB are nonspecific, no matter whether they are the common form, tuberculous meningitis (TBM), or the rare form ...

“Tests confirmed multiple complications: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed meningitis—an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord; an MRI confirmed encephalitis and myelitis ...