Influence of breastmilk on the development of resistance to intestinal colonization in infants born at the Atma Jaya Hospital, Jakarta.

A study of intestinal colonization resistance (CR) in breastfed versus formula-fed newborns at 4 intervals after birth in Jakarta, Indonesia, is described. To measure the intestinal CR for gram-negative enterobacilli, mean values of Enterobacteriaceae concentrations and mean numbers of Enterobacteriaceae biotypes were determined. The CR values found in this study show, that in all 4 sampling periods, at < 1, 2, 4 and 6 months, the mean concentration of Enterobacteriaceae was somewhat lower in the breastfed group than in the formula-fed group (only significant at 6 months).

Some clinical aspects of periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage (PVH-IVH) in the newborns.

Twenty seven cases of neonatal intracranial PVH-IVH were studied. Twenty-three (83.3%) cases were born with birth weight of less than 2,500 grams; out of which 8 (29.

Investigation on immunoglobulin fortification in preventing infections in the newborn.

Observations in neonatal sepsis revealed that the IgG concentrations in septic newborns is significantly lower than in non septic infants. This condition lead the author to investigate the role of fortification of IgG in infants with intrapartum infections. For this purpose a prospective study was carried out, 35 newborn infants with intrapartum infections were treated with IgG Cutter 0.