Mycobacterium tuberculosis Meningitis and Other Etiologies of the Aseptic Meningitis Syndrome

Karen L. Roos

doi:10.1055/s-2000-9428

Seminars in Neurology, Table of Contents

Semin Neurol 2000; Volume 20(Number 03): 329-336
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-9428

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Meningitis and Other Etiologies of the Aseptic Meningitis Syndrome

Karen L. Roos

Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious agents in the world. It causes an insidious form of meningitis characterized by headache, low-grade fever, stiff neck and cranial nerve palsies, and an acute meningoencephalitis characterized by coma, raised intracranial pressure, seizures, and focal neurological deficits. This review focuses on the diagnosis and therapy of the insidious form of tuberculous meningitis and discusses the differential diagnosis of infectious and noninfectious etiologies of the aseptic meningitis syndrome.

KEYWORD

Tuberculosis - aseptic meningitis syndrome - cerebrospinal lymphocytic pleocytosis

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