Ability of Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein for Discriminating between Bacterial and Enteroviral Meningitis in Children Using Decision Tree

Table 1

Demographic data of the studied population with meningitis.

	[ALL]	EVM	BM	.overall
	Age (in months)	48.0 [17.0; 96.0]	82.5 [40.0; 124]		23.0 [9.00; 50.0]	<0.001
Age group:				<0.001
≤1 y	52 (19.3%)	11 (7.53%)	41 (33.3%)
>1-3 y	61 (22.7%)	23 (15.8%)	38 (30.9%)
>3-5 y	46 (17.1%)	27 (18.5%)	19 (15.4%)
>5-7 y	33 (12.3%)	17 (11.6%)	16 (13.0%)
>7-10 y	36 (13.4%)	30 (20.5%)	6 (4.88%)
>10 y	41 (15.2%)	38 (26.0%)	3 (2.44%)
Gender:				0.622
Female	117 (43.5%)	66 (45.2%)	51 (41.5%)
Male	152 (56.5%)	80 (54.8%)	72 (58.5%)