Population
802 children presenting with aseptic meningitis to eight Canadian pediatric hospitals over a two-year period.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Absence of pleocytosis should not exclude EV testing in neonates; leaves open need for prospective validation of age-specific CSF criteria.
In Canadian children with aseptic meningitis, clinical presentation varies by age, and absence of CSF pleocytosis is common in infants under 30 days.
Lee et al. (2006) studied this question.
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