[The diagnostic algorithm in neonatal infections].

Abstract

Authors review the principles of diagnosis in neonatal bacterial infections (local and systemic), in congenital, peri- and postnatal viral infections and also in Candida spp. and other mycotic infections of the neonatal period. They try to delineate the clinical and epidemiological criteria of suspicion and modalities of confirmation of the neonatal infections by specific paraclinical methods. Attention is focused on modern diagnostic methods (such as immunofluorescent techniques, counterimmunoelectrophoresis and so on), which are important for the early etiological diagnosis and for thr rapid initiation of specific therapy. Authors made a practical diagnostic algorithm for the most frequent encountered neonatal infections. They also focused on the recent changes in the etiology of neonatal infections and their therapeutic significance.