[Neurological presentations of bacterial meningitis in children: current possibilities of diagnosis and treatment].

Aim: To improve clinical/laboratory diagnosis of bacterial meningitis (BM) in children.

Material And Methods: Fifty-seven patients, aged from 4 months to 12 years, with BM were examined. Bacteriological study of the mucus from the nasopharynx, sterility tests of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CNF), clinical and biochemical tests, serological study of paired samples of plasma - indirect hemagglutination test, latex agglutination assay, immunological study of plasma and CNF with the determination of interferon -α, -β and -γ, interferon procalcitonin and neopterin with ELISA were performed at admission and after CNF remediation.