Neonatal Infection
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چکیده
INFECTION among the new born babies of a maternity hospital nursery always gives rise to anxiety and engenders a feeling that all is not well with the nursery technique, although this may be quite unjustifiable. However, the problem is one which interests the medical and nursing staff and involves the bacteriologist in extensive investigations if any attempt is to be made to trace the infection to its source. It has been shown that infection during this period of the life of the infant is largely due to invasion by a pathogenic staphylococcus and usually malnifests itself as conjunctivitis or infection of the skin. The skin lesion consists of pustules which have been referred to as contagious subepithelial dermatitis and rarely proceeds to pemphigus neonatorum. In the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, cases of skin infection of infants in the neonatal period, while not frequent, are persistent and continue despite a rigid aseptic technique. As these infections are considered to be due largely to hospital cross infection, the incidence, source and method of spread require to he carefully investigated before control can be effectively employed.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1952