Research Catalog

Title

Immunological aspects of infection in the fetus and newborn / editors, H.P. Lambert, C.B.S. Wood.

Publication

London ; New York : Academic Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lambert, Harold P.
• Wood, Christopher B. S. (Christopher Bryan Somerset)

Description

xii, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Developmental immunology > Congresses
• Fetal Diseases > immunology
• Fetus > Immunological aspects > Congresses
• Infant, Newborn, Diseases > immunology
• Infection > Child
• Infection in children > Immunological aspects > Congresses
• Newborn infants > Immunological aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Second Beecham Symposium held at the Medical Society of London on 19th-21st September 1979."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Clinical aspects of pre and perinatal infection / W.C. Marshall -- Ontogeny of complement, lysozyme, and lactoferrin in man / Matteo Adinolfi -- Role of the placenta in protecting the fetus from infection / W. Page Faulk -- Clinical problems in postnatal infection / C.B.S. Wood -- The nature and role of mucosal surface immunity against infection in the newborn / W. Allan Walker -- Development and maturation of immunity in the newborn / A.R. Hayward -- The role of milk and gut flora in protection of the newborn against infection / J.J. Bullen -- Humoral and cellular immunities transmitted by breastmilk / L. Mellander ... et al. -- The contributions of milk to resistance to intestinal infection in the newborn / Bruno Reiter -- Advances in immunization for protection of the fetus and newborn against infection / J.W.G. Smith -- Damage to the fetus and newborn from prophylactic procedures / W.C. Marshall -- Future prospects for protection of the fetus and newborn / A.C. Allison.

ISBN

012434660X

LCCN

80041978

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries