Letters to the Editor

With regard to the article by Cleary and Kohl (Pediatrics 64:301, 1979), is there a literature on such infection following circumcision by a licensed mohel, ritual circumcisor. In 45 years of pediatric practice in a largely Jewish area, I have never seen any occurrence. The only infection I have seen is minor oozing, easily controlled. Perhaps the seventh day is the best time for the procedure, and the use of the Gomco clamp is the simplest and least traumatic.