Table 1 CSF microscopy, culture and PCRctic results in universal containers (samples 1–52) and snap-top tubes (samples 53–73)
Microscopy | Bacteriology | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | WCCa | RCCb | R/Wc | Culture | PCRctic | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | no growth | negative | |
2 | 10 | 662 | no growth | negative | ||
3 | 26 | 30,780 | 1183 | no growth | Armatimonadetes | |
4 | 12 | 6930 | no growth | negative | ||
5 | 6 | 32,310 | no growth | negative | ||
6 | ? | ? | no growth | negative | ||
7 | 0 | 9180 | no growth | negative | ||
8 | 0 | 260 | no growth | Flavobacteriaceae [23] & Rhodobacteraceae | ||
9 | 0 | 6570 | no growth | Hymenobacter (Flavobacteriaceae) | ||
10 | 0 | 0 | no growth | negative | ||
11 | 24 | 51,120 | 2130 | no growth | Flavobacteriaceae | |
12 | 6 | 280 | no growth | Ochrobactrum sp. [24] | ||
13 | 8 | 54,000 | no growth | Mixed sequence | ||
14 | 0 | 137 | no growth | Oscillatoriales | ||
15 | 0 | 690 | no growth | negative | ||
16 | 8 | 12 | no growth | Acinetobacter [25] | ||
17 | 24 | 20 | 0.8 | no growth | negative | |
18 | 22 | 42 | 1.9 | no growth | negative | |
19 | 2 | 4680 | no growth | negative | ||
20 | 14 | 15,840 | no growth | negative | ||
21 | 0 | 24 | no growth | negative | ||
22 | 6 | 52 | no growth | Sphingomonadaceae [26] | ||
23 | 8 | 14 | no growth | |||
24 | 12 | 228 | no growth | negative | ||
25 | 0 | 2610 | no growth | negative | ||
26 | 0 | 140 | no growth | negative | ||
27 | 10 | 300 | no growth | negative | ||
28 | 30 | 11,430 | 381 | no growth | Sneathia amnii | |
29 | 0 | 3310 | no growth | negative | ||
30 | 0 | 52 | no growth | |||
31 | 0 | 2 | no growth | negative | ||
32 | 4 | 146 | no growth | negative | ||
33 | 16 | 22,860 | no growth | |||
34 | 0 | 9720 | no growth | Bdellovibrio | ||
35 | 0 | 10,440 | no growth | |||
36 | 8 | 49,500 | no growth | negative | ||
37 | 8 | 1000 | no growth | Ureaplasma [32] | ||
38 | 0 | 790 | no growth | negative | ||
39 | 0 | 1800 | no growth | negative | ||
40 | 0 | 40 | no growth | negative | ||
41 | 0 | 80 | no growth | negative | ||
42 | 0 | 24,800 | no growth | negative | ||
43 | 4 | 1126 | no growth | negative | ||
44 | 0 | 38 | no growth | negative | ||
45 | 10 | 7560 | no growth | Cloacibacterium rupense | ||
46 | 8 | 9360 | no growth | negative | ||
47 | 4 | 284 | no growth | Mixed sequence | ||
48 | 0 | 18,900 | no growth | negative | ||
49 | 0 | 0 | no growth | negative | ||
50 | 0 | 6 | no growth | Methylobacterium sp. | ||
51 | 4 | 10,170 | no growth | Pedobacter suwonensis | ||
52 | 0 | 0 | no growth | Staphylococcus aureus | ||
| 53 | 16 | 22,860 | no growth | negative | |
54 | 0 | 40 | no growth | negative | ||
55 | 2 | 70 | no growth | negative | ||
56 | 0 | 3420 | no growth | negative | ||
57 | 0 | 0 | no growth | negative | ||
58 | 2 | 2088 | no growth | negative | ||
59 | 42 | 21,690 | 516 | no growth | negative | |
60 | 0 | 1080 | no growth | negative | ||
61 | 0 | 40 | no growth | negative | ||
62 | 0 | 132 | no growth | negative | ||
63 | 12 | 22 | no growth | Geobacter | ||
64 | 4 | 16 | no growth | negative | ||
65 | 10 | 1940 | no growth | negative | ||
66 | 8 | 4 | no growth | negative | ||
67 | 4 | 36 | no growth | Mixed sequence | ||
68 | 0 | 2 | no growth | negative | ||
69 | 0 | 8820 | no growth | negative | ||
70 | 0 | 8010 | no growth | negative | ||
71 | 6 | 4 | no growth | negative | ||
72 | 51 | 406,800 | 7976 | no growth | negative | |
73 | 6 | 12 | no growth | negative | ||
Universal container
Snap-top tube (“Eppendorf”)