Table 1.

Clinical and cerebrospinal fluid findings in patients with varicella-zoster virus meningitis with hypoglycorrhachia

Case	Age/sex (yr)	Symptoms	Skin lesions	CSF glucose (mmol/L)	CSF/serum glucose	CSF protein (mg/dL)	CSF leukocyte (/μL)	CSF mononuclear	Ref.
1	39/male	Headache, febrile	No	2.68	0.49	264	20	75%	Our case
				2.16	0.39	147	116	95%
2	44/female	Headache, afebrile	No	1.9	0.30	225	422	NA	[7]
3	36/male	Headache, low-grade fever	No	2.1	0.40	94	667	93%	[12]
4	18/male	Headache	No	2.3	NA	146	1720	100%	[13]
5	26/female	Headache, afebrile	No	1.6	0.37	219	331	99%	[11]
6	14/male	Headache	No	1.9	0.37	158	285	99%	[14]
7	12/male	Headache, afebrile	No	2.6	0.48	86	590	98%	[15]
8	37/male	Headache, febrile	Yes	2.2	NA	247	1180	100%	[16]
9	19-32	Aseptic meningitis	No	2.2-2.7	0.35	NA	1000	NA	[17]
10					NA		1000
11					NA		350

CSF: Cerebrospinal fluid; NA: Not available.