{"id":212998,"date":"2025-05-01T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/crp-protein-test-offers-quick-and-reliable-results-for-bacterial-meningitis-diagnosis"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:03:31","slug":"crp-protein-test-offers-quick-and-reliable-results-for-bacterial-meningitis-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/crp-protein-test-offers-quick-and-reliable-results-for-bacterial-meningitis-diagnosis","title":{"rendered":"CRP protein test offers quick and reliable results for bacterial meningitis diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crp-protein-test-offers-quick-and-reliable-results-for-bacterial-meningitis-diagnosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have developed a new diagnostic test that can quickly and accurately diagnose bacterial meningitis. The test measures the CRP protein in cerebrospinal fluid, a protein that is already often tested in blood to detect bacterial infections. Currently, it often takes a long time before meningitis is diagnosed, which delays the start of adequate treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666776225001012\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Lancet Regional Health\u2014Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening condition in which one in six patients die and half of the survivors have residual symptoms. Thus, prompt diagnosis and treatment are crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have developed a new diagnostic test that can quickly and accurately diagnose bacterial meningitis. The test measures the CRP protein in cerebrospinal fluid, a protein that is already often tested in blood to detect bacterial infections. Currently, it often takes a long time before meningitis is diagnosed, which delays the start [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}