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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2010 Jan 11;125(2):257–264. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-1181

Table 2.

Cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell counts

0–28 Days (n=142) 29–56 Days (n=238)
Mean value (standard deviation) 9.2 (32.1) 3.1 (5.0)
Upper bound of 95% confidence interval of the mean value 14.5 3.8
Median value* 3 2
90th percentile value 12 6
95th percentile value 19 9
Interquartile range 2–6 1–3

All units are/mm3

*

Difference in median values p<0.001, Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test