[The role of Chlamydia infection in the development of infectious inflammatory diseases in premature newborn infants].

It is highly probable that neonates may be infected with chlamydiae provided their mothers are chlamydia carriers, especially in disease exacerbation before delivery. Parallelism was noted between the intensity of antigen demonstration in the mother and the child. Infection with chlamydiae potentiates secondary infectious inflammatory diseases in premature neonates. However, diseases of chlamydia etiology developed only in 20.5% of children of all the infected and manifested themselves by pneumonias or total toxicosis without any localized focus of infection.