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Disease
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Drug
Enzyme
Compound
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Enzyme
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Target Concepts:
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Query: UMLS:C0085437 (
bacterial meningitis
)
4,038
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
The elevation of
ADA
in CSF is useful as a diagnostic means for detecting tuberculous meningitis, and in other etiologies such as lymphoma, neurosarcoidosis, fulminant
bacterial meningitis
, cryptococcal meningitis, neurobrucellosis and AIDS. We report an increase of
ADA
in CSF in association with SHA. In our case the total activity of
ADA
was the same as that obtained in serum, which can be interpreted among the false positives of the determination.
...
PMID:False positive of ADA determination in cerebrospinal fluid. 770
