[Recommendations for the diagnosis and therapy of meningitis, Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome and encephalitis in childhood].

: Representatives of the working group of "Neuropaediatrics" and "Infectology" like to present recommendations on diagnostics and treatment of infectious diseases on the CNS. Individual opinions can not be considered in recommendations always. Therefore we have to understand these recommendations in this way that individual decisions will not be restricted in special situations.