[Haemophilus influenzae infections in children].

Haemophilus influenzae is a gram-negative bacteria. The capsular form of this bacteria, mainly type b, is responsible for severe bacterial meningitis. In the study course of Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in two children was presented. In one of these children the clinical course of meningitis was particularly serious. The child was unconscious, the generalized swellings, pneumonia, increase and damage of liver, diarrhoea, heavy anaemia as well as disorders of blood coagulation were observed. In second child the beginning of disease was not characteristic, what delayed the proper diagnosis. The duration of children treatment was from 16 to 18 days. The permanent damages of central nervous system were not observed in both children