title: [Bacterial toxins as cause of sudden infant death (author's transl)].
abstract: At post-mortems held on cot-death infants, the cause of death can be established as a variety of pathological changes.  Inflammationin the region of the respiratory tract, in particular in the lungs;infections of the gastrointestinal tract; otitis media; shift of electrolytes-recently also the so-called yellow fat ect., can in association with the data on the anamnesis in many cases, through the assumption of bacterio-enterotoxin poisoning, which takes a different course in infants, to that in older children or adults, be traced back to a common origin. Extensive inquiries before the post-mortem, are as much indispensable prerequisites forthe clarification of the cause of sudden death as are the actual post-mortem and the ensuing investigations which must be carried out in the same way.
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000506:poisoning*; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D012475:Salmonella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012760:Shigella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000209:etiology*
chemical_list: D004768:Enterotoxins
vernacular_title: Bakterien und ihre Toxine als Ursache für den plötzlichen Tod im Säuglingsalter.