Infectious morbidity in children of both sexes during the 1st 7 years of life

: General morbidity in infectious diseases, morbidity in the main groups of infections and in individual nosological forms was dynamically studied in children born in 1971-1973 during the first 7 years of life in connection with their sex. In a vast majority of cases of infection boys showed a higher morbidity rate, starting already from the first 6 months of life, the maximum differences in morbidity rate for individual diseases being observed at different age. In some diseases (whooping cough, chickenpox, rubella) morbidity rate was higher among girls.