[Characteristics of umbilical septicemia in premature infants].

An analysis of 60 deaths of premature infants with umbilical sepsis revealed a number of peculiar features of this disease under current conditions: septicopyemia with a fatal outcome in the perinatal period in intrauterine infection, predominance of productive inflammation in the primary focus in infants with septicemia, the effect of acute respiratory diseases on clinico-morphological manifestations of sepsis and its complications, frequency of ulcerative lesions of the intestine against the background of antibiotic therapy.