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Culturing and PCR results for patients with gold standard diagnosis of meningococcal disease
| Clinical diagnosis (no. of patients) | No. of samples found positive by the following test:
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood culturing | Blood PCR | CSF culturing | CSF PCR | Synovial fluid culturing | Synovial fluid PCR | |
| Septicemia (8) | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Septicemia with signs of meningitis (11) | 6 | 9 | 1a | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Meningitis (5) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
This patient had a positive CSF Gram stain result but a negative culture result.
