PEDIATRICS Vol. 52 No. 2 August 1973, pp. 281-282
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GONORRHEAL OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM

Edward B. Shaw M.D.1

1 University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94122

A national epidemic of gonococcal infection accounts for nearly 50,000 cases monthly, as reported by the U.S. Public Health Services. Admittedly many are unreported. This may include most of those in pediatric patients, like that in an unusual site1 and the other in a more commonly recognized focus,2 described in this issue of Pediatrics. Gonorrheal ophthalmia in the newborn has not occurred very frequently in recent years, although it was previously the most frequent cause of blindness. It might be anticipated that the adult incidence of gonorrhea would cause a corresponding increase in ophthalmia neonatorum.

This neonatal form of infection is not reported in national statistics but in California, where it is reported, there is an average of 8,000 adult cases each month but only two or three newborn cases.




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