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After birth, in the presence of risk factors for early neonatal bacterial infection (IBNP), the pediatrician must make a difficult decision quickly or not to prescribe additional examinations and / or hospitalize or not the newborn in order to administer parenteral antibiotics. This decision takes into account several contextual data, (clinical, biological and bacteriological clinical data) to be considered simultaneously. These information lack sensitivity and specificity.
Therefore, the common attitude among newborns in many countries remains the achievement of a significant number of additional tests and the establishment, without a prior evidence of infection, intravenous empirical antibiotic therapy for 48 -72h at least in hospitalization. However, the diagnosis of IBNP posteriori, is often reversed. This attitude is:
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