Abstract
NUMEROUS epidemics of diarrhea of unknown origin have been reported from nurseries for the newborn in recent years. That a similar type of diarrhea may be hazardous in a hospital ward for infants has not been emphasized. Frant and Abramson<sup>1</sup>reported that no secondary cases occurred among older infants and children in open pediatric wards in which infants with epidemic diarrhea of the newborn were quartered. Rubenstein and Foley<sup>2</sup>likewise stated that no cases developed in older infants known to have been exposed to babies with epidemic diarrhea. Dodd,<sup>3</sup>however, observed that secondary infections occurred in infants up to at least 6 months of age, premature infants being severely affected. Clifford<sup>4</sup>noted the tendency of diarrhea to spread in pediatric wards after admission of babies from nurseries with epidemics, in contrast to the lack of spread when the infecting organism belonged to the Salmonella or dysentery
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