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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2013 Jan 17;368(3):240–245. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1209039

Table 1.

Results of Repeated Examinations of Cerebrospinal Fluid.

Date Opening
Pressure		 Appearance White-Cell
Count		 Differential Count Red-Cell
Count		 Protein Glucose* Results on Giemsa
Staining or Gram’s
Staining
cm of water per mm3 per mm3 mg/dl mg/dl
February 21 — Xanthochromic 65 23% polymorphonuclear leukocytes, 70% lym-phocytes, 6% monocytes, and 1% uncharacterized cells 6 >300 m Spirochete
February 23 21 Xanthochromic 40 37% polymorphonuclear leukocytes, 49% lymphocytes, 1% bands, 9% monocytes, 1% eosinophils, and 3% uncharacterized cells 2 >300 27 (96 in serum) Spirochete
March 29 16 Clear 21 91% lymphocytes and 9% monocytes 2 168 41 (87 in serum) No organism
*

To convert the values for glucose to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.05551.