Annemieke M. Peters van Ton

Systemic inflammation is associated with increased cerebrospinal fluid CRP and may affect meningitis diagnostics

C-reactive protein (CRP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been proposed as a highly specific diagnostic marker for bacterial meningitis. We investigated whether systemic inflammation, in the absence of CNS infection, can lead to detectable CSF CRP and examined the roles of plasma...