Infection in the Newborn Baby

Bacterial infection in the fetus and newborn.

“…are among those presented most commonly (Cameron, 1929;Dunham, 1933;Nelson, 1960;Groover, Sutherland, and Landing, 1961;Nyhan and Fousek, 1958;Buetow, Klein, and Lane, 1965). It has been pointed out by Moncrieff (1953) that many infants in the first days of life have a rectal temperature of 36-1°C, rather than the more usual adult norm of 37-2°C, and that a rise during this time may well be overlooked because of this. He also emphasized that overwhelming infection may be associated with a subnormal temperature.…”

Heredity in Common Diseases

“…Gebbing (1936) suggests an inherited failure of specific antibody production, and Moncrieff (1953) describes such family traits, while both Gates (1952) and Sorsby (1953) discuss this hypothesis at length and give many references. Apart from gross congenital defects, we think that in general it is necessary for an environmental agent to act in conjunction with the inherited factor before the disease becomes manifest (Lawrence, 1955;British Medical Journal, 1956;D.…”