[Congenital bacterial infections in newborn infants--the incidence and diagnostic criteria].

On the basis of the practical experience in the intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology an attempt is made to establish the importance of a number of criteria for the diagnosis and prognosis of antenatal infection in newborn babies. In the survey included 578 newborn infants for the period I. 1990-IV 1991. The study determines the factors with the greatest diagnostic value and highest incidence with antepartal infections. The conclusion is made that an exact diagnosis requires the evaluation of a full screening for connatal infection and the presence of a whole complex of factors.