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CSF CultureAka: Cerebrospinal Fluid Culture

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  1. Culture Mediums for CSF
    1. Sheep blood agar (5%) or chocolate agar
      1. Standard CSF bacterial culture
    2. Viral culture
      1. Enterovirus Test Sensitivity: 40-80%
      2. HSV Test Sensitivity: 80-90% (in 5-7 days)
    3. Fungal Culture
      1. Cryptococcus Test Sensitivity: 95%
      2. Candida Test Sensitivity: 66%
    4. Tuberculosis Cultures
      1. Requires large CSF volume (15-50 cc/culture)
      2. Test Sensitivity for one culture: 56%
      3. Test Sensitivity for four cultures: 83%
  2. References
    1. Kooiker in Roberts (1998) Procedures in ER, p. 1067-75
    2. Ravel (1995) Lab Medicine, Mosby, p. 294-9
    3. Tunkel in Mandell (2000) Infectious Disease, p. 974-8
    4. Seehusen (2003) Am Fam Physician 68:1103

CSF for culture (C0430403)

ConceptsLaboratory Procedure (T059)
EnglishCerebrospinal fluid culture, Cerebrospinal fluid for culture, CSF for culture
Spanishcultivo de LCR, cultivo de liquido cefalorraquideo, LCR para cultivo, liquido cefalorraquideo para cultivo
Parent ConceptsMiscellaneous sample for organism (C0420710), Laboratory culture (C0430400)
SourcesSCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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