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Table 1 Results of diagnostics in cerebrospinal fluid, blood, serum, and bronchoalveolar lavage

From: Lethal outcome of granulomatous acanthamoebic encephalitis in a man who was human immunodeficiency virus-positive: a case report

Disease/Pathogen

Test

Result

Human immunodeficiency virus

Liquor, PCR

Serum, PCR

Positive (670,000 copies/mL)

Positive (2,200,000 copies/mL)

Toxoplasmosis

Immunohistochemistry

Negative

Measles

Liquor,

Serum, IgG

Serum, IgM

Negative

Positive (IgG 1900 U/L)

Negative

Borrelia

Liquor, IgG

Negative

Syphilis

Liquor, TPPA

Negative

FSME

Liquor, IgG

Serum, IgG/IgM

Negative

Both negative

Cryptococcus

Liquor, antigen screen

Negative

HSV 1/2

Liquor, DNA

BAL, DNA

Negative

Positive

VZV (herpes zoster)

Liquor, PCR

Negative

CMV

Liquor, PCR

BAL, PCR

Negative

Negative

EBV

Liquor, PCR

Negative

JCV (human polyomavirus)

Liquor, PCR

BAL, PCR

Negative

Negative

HCV

Serum, PCR

Negative

Enterococcus

BAL

Positive

  1. BAL bronchoalveolar lavage, CMV cytomegalovirus, EBV Epstein–Barr virus, FSME tick-borne encephalitis, HCV hepatitis C virus, HSV herpes simplex virus, JCV John Cunningham virus, PCR polymerase chain reaction, TPPA Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay, VZV varicella zoster virus