TABLE 3.
Prevalence of C. pneumoniae in the CSF of OND controls
| Patient | Age (yr) | Gender | CSF characteristics
|
Diagnosis | PCR assay results
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VUMCa
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USF with MOMP primerb | ||||||||
| Cell count (no. of cells/μl) | Protein concn (mg/dl) | Glucose concn (mg/dl) | VU-MOMP | Tong and Sillis | |||||
| 1 | 72 | M | 2 | 65 | 121 | Pneumonia | + | − | + |
| 2 | 30 | M | 4 | 39 | 77 | Metabolic encephalopathy | − | − | − |
| 3 | 21 | F | 5 | 54 | 79 | Secundum septum aneurysm and fever | − | − | − |
| 4 | 48 | F | 0 | 41 | 52 | Delirium | − | − | − |
| 5 | 25 | F | 1 | 33 | 62 | Headache | − | − | − |
| 6 | 36 | F | 1 | 40 | 58 | R/Oc vasculitis | − | − | − |
| 7 | 77 | F | 100 | 63 | 88 | Meningitis | − | − | − |
| 8 | 24 | F | 0 | 18 | 56 | Pseudotumor cerebri | − | − | − |
| 9 | 30 | F | 1 | 36 | 69 | R/O MS | − | − | − |
| 10 | 30 | F | 0 | 120 | 37 | Acute leukemia | − | − | NDd |
| 11 | 39 | F | 66 | 135 | 33 | CNS sarcoidosis | − | − | ND |
| 12 | 45 | F | 1 | 71 | 75 | Delirium following cardiac transplant | − | − | + |
| 13 | 46 | F | 0 | 36 | 49 | Myelopathy | − | − | − |
| 14 | 48 | F | 0 | 44 | 66 | Myelopathy | − | − | − |
a
The total numbers of samples positive were 1 and 0 for the VU-MOMP and Tong and Sillis primers, respectively.
b
The total number of samples positive was two.
c
R/O, rule out.
d
ND, not done.