Affiliation:
1. Central Microbiological Laboratories, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Abstract
The incidence of patients with positive blood cultures from which a single species of coliform bacillus was isolated is given for the years 1962 to 67. There has been an increase during these years particularly in neonatal infants: 91 cases were recorded in babies under 6 months of age, and the bacteriological and clinical findings have been related in 85. Children born either prematurely or as a multiple birth and those with congenital malformations showed a predisposition to this form of infection. Many of the remaining cases had an associated localised infection. Some aspects of the cause of the increase in coliform bacteraemia in babies are discussed and the severity and possible implications of the infection are emphasised.
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