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A three-hour-old boy was admitted to the newborn intensive care unit after a premature delivery.
The infant was born of a 35-week triplet gestation to a 25-year-old primipara, who had received Rh0(D) immune globulin at 28 weeks. A prenatal screening test revealed that the mother's blood group was A, Rh-negative; vaginal cultures for gonococci and chlamydia were negative. She was immune to rubella virus, and a test for hepatitis B surface antigen and a serologic test for syphilis were negative. The mother was admitted several days before delivery, and the fetuses were monitored with serial biophysical profiles. Tests of
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