Abstract
Two hundred nineteen neonates with gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, including 40 infected with penicillinase-producing strains, were treated as outpatients with a single intramuscular injection of 100 mg of kanamycin and hourly ocular irrigation with saline. Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated from three (1.4%) of the 212 babies attending for follow-up, and post-gonococcal conjunctivitis developed in 22 (10.4%) of those who returned for follow-up.
MeSH terms
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Ambulatory Care
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Female
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Gonorrhea / drug therapy*
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Gonorrhea / microbiology
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Kanamycin / administration & dosage
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Kanamycin / therapeutic use*
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Male
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae / isolation & purification
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum / drug therapy*
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum / microbiology
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Saline Solution, Hypertonic / administration & dosage*
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Sodium Chloride / administration & dosage*
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Therapeutic Irrigation
Substances
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Saline Solution, Hypertonic
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Sodium Chloride
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Kanamycin