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Table 1 Characteristics of newborn patients with and without a systemic inflammatory response (pyrexia on or after admission) who had a cerebrospinal fluid analysis and were without evidence of meningitis (there were no statistically significant differences (p > 0.05) between parameters in column two and three)

From: Cerebrospinal fluid protein and glucose levels in neonates with a systemic inflammatory response without meningitis

 

No systemic inflammatory response (n = 26)

Systemic inflammatory response (n = 218)

Gestational age at cerebrospinal fluid analysis (weeks, mean, standard deviation)

38.7 (3.1)

39 (2.3)

Gender (male)

14

113

Number of patients with organisms isolated from blood

2a

14b

Number of patients with positive urine culture

2

8

Seizures

2

9

Adverse neurological outcome

1c

7d

  1. aE. coli (1), group B streptococcus (1)
  2. bGroup B streptococcus (5). E. coli (4), Staphylococcus aureus (2) and Listeria (1), Haemophilus influenzae (1), Klebsiella pneumoniae (1)
  3. cMild gross motor delay
  4. dHypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (1), global developmental delay (4), neurogenic arthrogryposis (1), hypotonia (1)