PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 5 May 1967, pp. 778-780
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Streptococcal M Protein Antibodies Acquired at Birth

ROBERT W. QUINN M.D.-C.M.1 and P. NYE LOWRY B.A., M.S.1

1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee 37203

The results indicate that type-specific M protein antibodies were present in cord blood of seven of nine infants for the same serologic types and in similar titers to those in the mother's serum. These type-specific antibodies disappeared from the serum by the fifth postnatal month in those infants it was possible to follow.