Poor bacterial growth rate and bacterial killing in CSF

Max. bactericidal rate: 0.5 CFU/ml/hr.

in broth (1 x MBC), in CSF (5 x MBC)

Täuber, MG. et al. JID 1984

Growth rate in peritoneal fluid

and in blood adapted from

Knudsen, JD. et al. AAC 1998