Abstract

The article discusses issues of laboratory diagnosis of pre-natal(intrauterine) infection. Based on a retrospective analysis of the medical records and laboratory results (more than 250 000000) in neonates with intrauterine infection hospitalized children's multidisciplinary hospital for three years (497 cases), assessed the quality of laboratory diagnostics. Found that 78.8% of intrauterine infections cases was not etiologically deciphered. One of the reasons for insufficient verification of the etiology of the pre-natal infectionis the unsatisfactory quality of laboratory diagnostics - low coverage of newborn survey as a whole and on various agents, incomplete survey, lack of comprehensiveness (combination of RT-PCR and Elisa, serological monitoring) and extremely insufficient survey of mothers with children pre-natal infections. Recommendations on optimization of laboratory diagnostics of pre-natal infections and the necessity of evaluating its quality in the epidemiological surveillance of infections in children's multidisciplinary hospital.

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