Case Series
Tuberculosis Meningitis in People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Health Center in the Brazilian Amazon: A Silent Disease
Table 2
CSF analysis of tuberculous meningitis cases in people with HIV/AIDS with positive AFB and/or detectable TRM-TB.
| | Exams | Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | Case 4 | Case 5 |
| | Color | Cloudy | Light | Xanthochromic | Cloudy | Cloudy | | Proteins (mg/dL) | 126.7 | 184.1 | 182.4 | 252 | 237 | | Glucose (mg/dL) | 13 | 54 | 4 | 52 | 22 | | Cellularity (cell/mm³) | 400 | 125 | 55 | 250 | 760 | | Polymorphonuclear (%) | 75 | 71 | 47 | 89 | 37 | | Mononuclear (%) | 25 | 29 | 53 | 11 | 63 | | Acid-alcoholic resistant bacilli search | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | | Culture of mycobacteria | M.T.1 | M.T.1 | NHC2 | M.T.1 | M.T.1 | | TRM-TB | Detected | Detected | Not detected | Detected | Detected | | Molecular test | GeneXpert MTB/Rif | GeneXpert MTB/Rif | GeneXpert MTB/Rif | GeneXpert MTB/Rif | UltraXpert MTB/Rif |
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