M. hominis was isolated from pus which was drained from a skin abscess of an infant at 7 and again at 27 days of age. The same organism was isolated from the vagina of the infant's mother. These findings provide additional evidence indicating that M. hominis, a normal inhabitant of the female genital tract, may not only colonize infants during passage through the birth canal but may also produce clinical illness in the newborn infant.
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