ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis: Integrating Clinical Assessment and Molecular Diagnostics.
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- Efficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids in Tuberculous Meningitis: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Machine learning-based analysis of prognostic factors in patients with tuberculous meningitis.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Assessing the Combined Diagnostic Value of Serum ACE Levels, Mantoux Test and Lymphopenia in Uveitis Patients from a Tertiary Eye Care Center in Southern India.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis and remains associated with high mortality and substantial neurological disability, particularly among children and people living with HIV. Early diagnosis is challenging because of nonspecific clinical manifestations, the limited discriminatory value of cerebrospinal fluid cytochemical analysis, and the low sensitivity of conventional microbiological methods. This narrative review synthesizes contemporary evidence on the diagnostic approach to tuberculous meningitis, integrating clinical assessment, paraclinical cerebrospinal fluid findings, conventional microbiology, and molecular diagnostic tools. Clinical scoring systems, including the uniform case definition (Lancet consensus score), improve diagnostic stratification but do not replace microbiological confirmation. Molecular assays have transformed diagnostic pathways by enabling rapid detection of
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