Newborns with coxsackie B 5 meningitis can mount a rapid antibody response and survive the infection, despite being more severely ill than their mothers.
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Neonates with coxsackie B5 meningitis may survive via rapid antibodies; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
17 newborn infants with coxsackie B 5 meningitis are presented. One case probably had intrauterine infection with suspected myocarditis. In all but the first 2 cases the diagnosis was based on virus isolation and/or antibody rise. The newborn babies were more severely ill than their mothers. The antibody formation in the newborn was rapid and high antibody titres were observed. All the babies survived.
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Rantakallio et al. (1970) studied this question.
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