Doctors have come a step closer to understanding what causes cot deaths. In a 10-year study of sudden unexplained infant deaths dealt with at Great Ormond Street hospital in London, the researchers found a link with bacterial infection. At present, they caution, the link is merely an association. They cannot be sure that infections found during autopsy were what caused the deaths. However, the study does go some way to confirming suspicions among medical professionals that bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli are sometimes the cause.
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Research offers infection clue to sudden infant death syndrome - The Times 30th May 2008
Cot death link to bacteria - The Guardian 30th May 2008
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