Cerebrospinal fluid in bacterial meningitis
Features include:
- pressure is often raised
- appearance can be cloudy and may be purulent
- the predominant cells are polymorphs, sometimes more than 1000 per square mm
- glucose is less than 40% plasma
- protein is 1 to 5 g per litre
- organisms may be seen in smear, gram stain and culture
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