TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe bacteriology of the female genital tract before and after childbirth
Y1  - 1909/03/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540380032004
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 966
EP  - 967
VL  - LII
IS  - 12
N2  - The question as to the part played by autoinfeetion in puerperal fever has received much attention during the last twenty years or so. The many and extensive investigations devoted to the solution of the question indicate at once the difficulty of its solution and the significance attached to it. Naturally, the object in view has been and is the establishment of a rational prophylaxis of puerperal fever.It appears to be agreed that puerperal fever may arise from autoinfection, but opinions differ as to the precise meaning of the word autoinfection in this case. Some would limit autoinfection to infection with microbes present in the vagina during birth. For many years Ahlfeld has urged that puerperal autoinfection should include all those cases of puerperal infection in which hands, instruments, dressings, have no part, the infecting germs coming either from the external or internal genitalia
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540380032004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540380032004
ER  -