Background Bacterial meningitis is an emergent disease requiring prompt diagnosis and
treatment with appropriate antimicrobials. Although the lumbar puncture is widely used as a
diagnostic tool for bacterial meningitis, it remains unclear which value in cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) analysis in emergency laboratory tests precisely predicts the presence of bacterial
meningitis. Methods This is a single-center, retrospective review of medical records to
determine which emergency laboratory CSF test results are useful for predicting bacterial …