Acute conjunctival inflammation in the newborn, usually caused by maternal gonococcal infection. The causative agent is NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE. The baby's eyes are contaminated during passage through the birth canal.
    

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O sliepotie vsliedstvie gnoetecheniia glaz (blennorrei) novorzhdennykh i o mierakh eia preduprezhdeniia v narod / I.N. Katsaurova.

Ophthalmia neonatorum / by Sydney Stephenson.

Die Bindehautinfection der Neugeborenen / bearbeitet von D. Haussmann.

On ophthalmia neonatorum : (paper read before the Manchester Medical Society) / by A. Emrys-Jones.

Ophthalmia neonatorum : with especial reference to its causation and prevention / by Sydney Stephenson.

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Ophthalmia Neonatorum

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O sliepotie vsliedstvie gnoetecheniia glaz (blennorrei) novorzhdennykh i o mierakh eia preduprezhdeniia v narod / I.N. Katsaurova.

Ophthalmia neonatorum / by Sydney Stephenson.

Die Bindehautinfection der Neugeborenen / bearbeitet von D. Haussmann.

On ophthalmia neonatorum : (paper read before the Manchester Medical Society) / by A. Emrys-Jones.

Ophthalmia neonatorum : with especial reference to its causation and prevention / by Sydney Stephenson.