Abstract
A retrospective clinical and epidemiological comparison was made between gonococcal and non-gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum in Glasgow from 1963 to 1968. Both forms of the disease were fairly mild, responding well to either topical or systemic antibiotic therapy. Neisseria gonorrhoeae was the commonest cause of ophthalmia neonatorum during the period studied. Illegitimate babies, those born in certain hospitals or in their own homes and those whose homes were in the inner suburbs had the highest incidence of gonococcal ophthalmia, and it is suggested that prophylaxis be re-introduced for those babies at greatest risk.
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