[To study of etiopathogenetic peculiarities of meningitis in children].

The aim of the present study was to reveal some etio-pathogenetic aspects of bacterial meningitis in children. The complex clinical and microbiological investigation of 14 year old 66 children with meningeal and infectious syndromes was conducted. Bacterial meningitis was diagnosed in 90,9% patients. The meningococcal meningitis was diagnosed in 18 (30%) patients, H.influenzae meningitis--in 9 (15%), S.pneumoniae--in 8 (13,3%). Meningitis as a monoinfection was revealed in 85% cases; mixed infection--in 15%. In 28 patients the etiologic agents of disease were gram-negative bacteria, in 16 children--gram-positive.