The fetus does not reside in a sterile intrauterine environment and is exposed to commensal bacteria from the maternal gut/blood stream that cross the placenta and enter the amniotic fluid. This ...
IN 1952 Farquharson et al. 1 reported the control of an outbreak of staphylococcal skin lesions in their nurseries by washing all infants with a hexachlorophene-containing preparation twenty-four ...