“…For this reason studies and observations on newborn infants provide further useful Information, which can eventually be applied to everyday practice. Most of the data currently available on drug kinetics and metabolism in the newborn infant concern antibiotic and sulfonamide compounds [8,11,23,24,26,27,28] though some observations have also been carried out with other drugs [13,14,21,22,30,31]. In most cases they indicate a slower disposition of the drug äs compared to children.…”