A. Gardner Robb has written:

'The value of antimeningitis serum in the treatment of epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis' -- subject(s): Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Meningitis, Cerebrospinal, Treatment

Thomas H. Wright has written:

'A historical and physical sketch of a malignant epidemick' -- subject(s): Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Meningitis, Cerebrospinal, Phlebotomy

J. W. Crawshaw has written:

'Observations on forty cases of cerebro-spinal fever at Featherston Military camp, New Zealand, in 1918' -- subject(s): Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Meningitis, Cerebrospinal

The CSF lactate is used mainly to help differentiate bacterial and fungal meningitis, which cause increased lactate, from viral meningitis, which does not.

It is very rare to get the infection of the meninges, that is meningitis. Here the capillaries have no gap between them. That is called as blood brain barrier. But at times this barrier is broken and the bacteria do enter the meninges. There they multiply to give you bacterial meningitis. The most common bacteria are Menoingococcus, Pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type B and Tuberculous bacteria.