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CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
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من أهم العينات في المختبر و تتطلب التعامل معاها مباشرة
نلخصها في تغريدات و نسألكم عنها شوياhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☝🏼" title="Zeigefinger nach oben (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Zeigefinger nach oben (mittelheller Hautton)">
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•Tube 1 – chemistries and serology
•Tube 2 – microbiology cultures
•Tube 3 – hematology
من أهم العينات في المختبر و تتطلب التعامل معاها مباشرة
نلخصها في تغريدات و نسألكم عنها شويا
•Tube 1 – chemistries and serology
•Tube 2 – microbiology cultures
•Tube 3 – hematology
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•Tube 1 (chem-sero)
•Tube 2 (micro)
Tube 3 (hemo)
•Gram stain – Extremely important for early diagnosis of bacterial meningitis
•Even when well performed, 10% false negatives occur
•Use of Cytospin to concentrate specimen increases sensitivity
•Cultures- Aerobic & Anaerobic. Culture blood at same time
Organisms
Could find
•Newbornshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👶" title="Baby" aria-label="Emoji: Baby">
•E. coli & group B Strep.
•Childrenhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧒" title="Kind" aria-label="Emoji: Kind">
•Streptococcus pneumoniae
•Hemophilus influenzae
•Neisseria meningitidis
Could find
•Newborns
•E. coli & group B Strep.
•Children
•Streptococcus pneumoniae
•Hemophilus influenzae
•Neisseria meningitidis
Adults -
•Neisseria meningitidis
•Streptococcus pneumoniae
•Staph. aureus
•Candida albicans
•Neisseria meningitidis
•Streptococcus pneumoniae
•Staph. aureus
•Candida albicans
RESULT OF GRAM STAIN
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• Diplococci, lying side by side (Kidney shape)
• Intracellular, inside the neutrophils. Diplococci may occasionally be seen outside the cells and are usually few in number.
• Diplococci, lying side by side (Kidney shape)
• Intracellular, inside the neutrophils. Diplococci may occasionally be seen outside the cells and are usually few in number.
• Gram-positive
• Diplococci, lying end to end (glass shape)
•Surrounded by a capsule, which is not visible with Gram stain
• Not intracellular
• Usually many in number
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• Gram-negative
• Small bacilli (coccobacilli)
•In all the above-mentioned forms of meningitis the leukocytes present are neutrophils.
Listeria group.
•Gram-positive bacilli
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