Browsing by Subject "tuberculous meningitis (TBM)"

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Cerebrospinal fluid in tuberculous meningitis exhibits only the L-enantiomer of lactic acid

Mason, Shayne; Reinecke, Carolus J.; Kulik, Willem; Van Cruchten, Arno; Solomons, Regan (BioMed Central, 2016)

Background: The defining feature of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collected from infants and children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM), derived from an earlier untargeted nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics ...
Differentiating between types of meningitis in a paediatric population using ¹H-NMR metabolomics

Van Zyl, C.D.W. (North-West University (South Africa), 2020)

Meningitis is a disease characterized by the inflammation of the meninges and spinal cord that is most commonly caused by viruses and bacteria and can be classified into two categories. 1) Acute meningitis (rapid onset), ...
A hypothetical astrocyte-microglia lactate shuttle derived from a 1H NMR metabolomics analysis of cerebrospinal fluid from a cohort of South African children with tuberculous meningitis

Mason, Shayne; Mienie, Lodewyk J.; Reinecke, Carolus J.; Van Furth, A. Marceline; Engelke, Udo F.H. (Springer, 2015)

Tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) is the most severe form of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and is particularly intense in small children; there is no universally accepted algorithm for the diagnosis and substantiation of TB ...