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June 1960, Vol 99, No. 6 >
Article | June 1960

Routes and Types of Infection in the Fetus and the Newborn FREE

KURT BENIRSCHKE, M.D.
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Submitted for publication Oct. 9, 1959.

Supported by a grant of the National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness, No. 3-B-9041.

Presented as part of Symposium on Problems of the Newborn at the Ninth International Congress of Pediatrics, Montreal, July 21, 1959.


AMA Am J Dis Child. 1960;99(6):714-721. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1960.02070030716003.
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This morning it is my task to review with you the routes by which infection may reach the fetus and newborn infant, and, further, to consider the principal types of infection which we see in this period of life. I will start out by saying that the baby may become infected before birth, during delivery, and in the neonatal period. In this presentation I will limit my discussion chiefly to prenatal infections because they have occupied more of my attention and because they are less well understood and appreciated than are the infections which are acquired in neonatal life. This does not necessarily imply, though, that numerically these infections are more important than those which the baby acquires during delivery or in the neonatal period, of which we will hear more in the subsequent presentation.

As I go along this morning it will become evident that two principal classes of

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Kibrick, S., and Benirschke, K.:  Severe Generalized Disease (Encephalohepatomyocarditis) Occurring in the Newborn Period and Due to Infection with Coxsackie Virus, Group B , Pediatrics 22:857, 1958;.
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Morison, J. E.: Foetal and Neonatal Pathology , London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd., 1952;, p. 280.
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Potter, E. L.: Pathology of the Fetus and the Newborn , Chicago, The Year Book Publishers, Inc., 1952;.
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Langley, F. A., and Smith, J. A. M.:  Perinatal Pneumonia , J. Obst. & Gynaec. Brit. Emp. 66:12, 1959;.
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Kückens, H.:  Über Rundzelleninfiltrate in reifer Placenta mit Anhängen, sowie ihre Beziehungen zum Geburts- und Wochenbettsverlauf , Arch. Gynäk. 167:564, 1938;.
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Blanc, W. A.:  Infection amniotique et néonatale , Gynaecologia 136:101, 1953;.
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Benirschke, K., and Clifford, S. H.:  Intrauterine Bacterial Infection of the Newborn Infant , J. Pediat. 54:11, 1959;.
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Tan Vinh and Lelong: Exhibition at the Ninth International Congress of Pediatrics, Montreal, 1959. (Inclusion bodies were demonstrated within placental villi.)

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Kibrick, S., and Benirschke, K.:  Severe Generalized Disease (Encephalohepatomyocarditis) Occurring in the Newborn Period and Due to Infection with Coxsackie Virus, Group B , Pediatrics 22:857, 1958;.
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Morison, J. E.: Foetal and Neonatal Pathology , London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd., 1952;, p. 280.
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Potter, E. L.: Pathology of the Fetus and the Newborn , Chicago, The Year Book Publishers, Inc., 1952;.
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Langley, F. A., and Smith, J. A. M.:  Perinatal Pneumonia , J. Obst. & Gynaec. Brit. Emp. 66:12, 1959;.
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Kückens, H.:  Über Rundzelleninfiltrate in reifer Placenta mit Anhängen, sowie ihre Beziehungen zum Geburts- und Wochenbettsverlauf , Arch. Gynäk. 167:564, 1938;.
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Blanc, W. A.:  Infection amniotique et néonatale , Gynaecologia 136:101, 1953;.
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Benirschke, K., and Clifford, S. H.:  Intrauterine Bacterial Infection of the Newborn Infant , J. Pediat. 54:11, 1959;.
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Tan Vinh and Lelong: Exhibition at the Ninth International Congress of Pediatrics, Montreal, 1959. (Inclusion bodies were demonstrated within placental villi.)

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