The administrative control of ophthalmia neonatorum
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Ihis work won for its author the Middleinore Piize of the British Medical Association in 1907. It contains the most complete account there is in the English language of a preventible disease winch is still responsible for a large amount of the blindness in the world. The book abounds with instructive tables taken from all available souices illustrating the prevalence, etiology, pievention and t...
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Ninety consecutively seen babies with eye discharge in the first three weeks of life were examined. Four babies had "sticky eyes" with no evidence of ophthalmia and had uniformly negative cultures and test results for antichlamydial antibody; these babies were excluded. Of the 86 babies with ophthalmia neonatorum, Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from eight, Chlamydia trachomatis from 44, oth...
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(1) Purulent conjunctivitis affecting newborn babies is not invariably due to the gonococcus but may be caused by streptococci, staphylococci, or even B. coli and B. proteus. (2) Blindness from this cause in England has been reduced from approximately 25 per cent. of all blind children in 1920 to 9 per cent. in 1940. (3) This improvement began when the use of the Crede method of prophylaxis wit...
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Alfred Graefe.?"Ueber caustische und antiseptische Behandlung der Conjunctivalentziindungen mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Blenorrhcea Neonatorum," in Volkmanris Sammlung Klinischer Vortrcege, No. 192, 1881. Abegg.?" Zur Yerlilitung der Augenentziindung Neugeborener," in Archiv fur Gyncekologie, xvii. 502, 1881. Olshausen.?" Zur Prophylaxe der Conjunctivalblenorrhoea Neugeborener," in Cen...
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Although the administration of sulfanilamide has led to spectacular improvement in infections due to Neisseria gonorrheae, only Hageman' thus far has mentioned its use in gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. The present report includes four cases, in addition to the details of the case referred to by Hageman. Besides the drug, these infants have received auxiliary treatment locally of saline or bo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health
سال: 1911
ISSN: 0033-3506
DOI: 10.1016/s0033-3506(11)80152-6