Meningitis Diagnostics

Laboratory parameters 1st order obligatory laboratory tests.

• Small blood count
• Differential blood count
• Blood glucose
• CRP (C-reactive protein) (inflammation parameter).
• Blood cultures Collection of blood into special collection systems in which the bacteria that may be in the blood can grow and thus be determined.
• CSF puncture (collection of cerebrospinal fluid by puncture of the spinal canal).
  CSF diagnostics: total protein, albumin, glucose, IgG, oligoclonal immunoglobulins, lactateBacteriology (microscopic and cultural): CSF, blood cultures for pathogens and resistance and for immediate microscopic evaluation (also for mycobacteria, if necessary). Antigen detection: CSF for agglutination with antisera against Haemophilus influencae Tyb B, Neisseria menigitidis (A,B,C), Streptococcus pneumoniae.
• In abacterial meningitisSerology: antibodies against Borrelia, CMV, EBV, TBE virus, herpes simplex virus, measles virus, mumps virus, varicella zoster virus, Treponema pallidum.