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We only included an infant\u2019s first CSF culture and excluded cultures from CSF reservoirs and those growing contaminants or nonbacterial organisms. We examined the utility of CSF WBC components to diagnose or predict bacterial meningitis by calculating sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, likelihood ratios, and area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) at different cutoff values for each parameter. We performed subgroup analysis excluding infants treated with antibiotics the day before CSF culture collection.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Of the 20 756 infants that met the study inclusion criteria, 320 (2%) were diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. We found (AUC [95% CI]) CSF WBC count (0.76 [0.73\u20130.79]), CSF neutrophil count (0.74 [0.70\u20130.78]), and CSF neutrophil percent (0.71 [0.67\u20130.75]) had the highest predictive values for bacterial meningitis, even when excluding infants with early antibiotic administration.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>No single clinical prediction rule had the optimal discriminatory power for predicting culture-proven bacterial meningitis, and clinicians should be cautious when interpreting CSF WBC parameters in infants with suspected meningitis.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jpids\/piad087","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,26]],"date-time":"2023-12-26T11:58:45Z","timestamp":1703591925000},"page":"S44-S52","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Diagnostic Utility of Cerebrospinal Fluid White Blood Cell 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