RITTER'S disease, exfoliative dermatitis of the newborn, was first described by Ritter von Ritter-shain in 1878. Many investigators, since the work of Winternitz, 1 in 1898, suggested Staphylococcus ...
SUBSTANTIAL knowledge of the epidemiology of staphylococcal disease among newborn infants and their mothers was gained from earlier investigations in Seattle 1,2 and elsewhere. 3–13 It had been ...