Table 1 Baseline data, symptoms and routine CSF analyses
From: Cerebrospinal fluid CXCL13 in Lyme neuroborreliosis and asymptomatic HIV infection
Longitudinal study | Cross-sectional study | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LNB | LNB | HIV | Controls | ||
N | 25 | 16 | 27 | 39 | |
M/F | 17/8 | 7/9 | 16/11 | 17/22 | |
Age (years) | 50 | 37 | 38 | 64 | |
(12–74) | (25–67) | (23–76) | (27–76) | ||
Duration of symptoms (days) | 28 | 21 | na | na | |
(5–360) | (7–120) | ||||
Symptoms | |||||
radiculitis | 15 | 10 | na | na | |
headache | 4 | na | na | ||
facial palsy | 3 | na | na | ||
radiculitis and facial palsy | 1 | na | na | ||
radiculitis and other palsy | 2 | 1 | na | na | |
radiculits and sensibility disturbancies | 3 | na | na | ||
other palsy | 2 | na | na | ||
Baseline | Follow-up | ||||
CSF mononuclear cells (cells/μL) | 118 | 13 | 58 | 4 | 1 |
(14–590) | (2–21) | (8–493) | (0–69) | (0–8) | |
CSF albumin (mg/L) | 664 | 301 | 432 | 203 | 230 |
(267–2108) | (146–707) | (206–1080) | (108–383) | (43–465) | |
Blood CD4 cells (cells/μL) | na | na | 250 | na | |
(20–940) | |||||
Blood viral count (copies/μL) | na | na | 54500 | na | |
(2920–450000) | |||||
CSF viral count (copies/μL) | na | na | 5680 | na | |
(0–384000) | |||||