Intestinal flora in new-born infants: with a description of a new pathogenic anaerobe, Bacillus difficilis

IC Hall, E O'toole - American journal of diseases of children, 1935 - jamanetwork.com
Following our first article on the bacterial flora of first passage specimens of meconium from
fifty new-born infants 1 we studied the daily microbial changes in the feces of ten normal
breast-fed infants up to the tenth day, when they left the hospital. HISTORICAL REVIEW The
early invasion of the intestinal tracts of new-born infants by bacteria, either ascending or
descending, often within ten hours after birth and before feeding, first observed
microscopically by Breslau 2 in 1866, was confirmed by Billroth 3 in 1874 and by Nothnagel …