Table 1

Patient characteristics and specimens

	Disease category (patients)	Age range	CSF	Serum	Urine (neat)	Urine (concentrated)
Set 1, n=32	Meningococcal disease, n=24	8 months to 40 years	11	11	9	4
	Pneumococcal meningitis, n=5	8 months to 54 years	1	0	5	4
	Pneumococcal sepsis, n=2	38 years and 40 years	0	0	2	1
	Group B streptococcus meningitis, n=1	2 months	0	0	1	0
Set 2, n=19	Clinical meningococcal sepsis, n=19	5 months to 34 years	2	9	13	8
Set 3, n=35	Possible meningitis, n=30	1 year to 3 years	0	31	2	0
	Lobar pneumonia, n=3	22 years to 41 years	0	0	3	0
	OPSI, n=2	30 years, 45 years	0	1	2	1
Set 4, n=23	Controls, n=10		0	8	10	10
	Unrelated conditions, n=13		2	8	5	4
Total = 109			16	68	52	32