[Bacterial meningitis in the newborn. Study of 20 cases]

The cases of 20 patients admitted with purulent meningitis in the neonatal period are reported. The authors analyse the importance in recognizing the minimal signals and symptoms, as weel as the clinical patterns of the manifested disease; Some considerations are draw about the values of the early diagnostic before the high incidence of mortality and the gravity of sequaele that occur besides the high doses and long term antimicrobial therapy.