[Generalized herpes with mucoviscidosis, pneumocystosis and meconial disease--rare causes of death in newborn infants].

Rare forms of diseases and combinations thereof that developed in utero and eventuated in death during the first hour of life of two newborns are described. Mucoviscidosis represented by the pulmonary and meconial syndrome was combined with generalized herpes whose specific feature was medulla oblongata involvement. The authors confirm the rare possibility of intrauterine development of pulmonary pneumocystosis combined with meconial disease. They demonstrate the possibility of differentiating between mucoviscidosis and meconial disease. In both cases death occurred because of obturation of the respiratory routes with pathologic bronchial secretion and parasitic exudative mass.