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Abstract Recent medical advances have had a dramatic impact on the practice patterns in obstetrics. Within the last 2 decades, there has been an astounding increase in the number of pregnancies terminated with caesarean-section. Because caesarean-section is a major surgical procedure, it can be complicated by the same complications which follow the major abdominal operations, especially the infectious febrile mor-bidity. The data available from the Commission on Professional and Hospital activities revealed that a 1% increase in the incidence of caesarean-section, resulted in a twofold increase in the number of mothers with recorded post-sectional infectious febrile morbidity. However, this problem is not going to be eliminated by returning to old obstetric practices, because the benefits of this technology to both the mother and the foetus have . Jl become standard medical care. Antibiotic-prophylaxis was one of the advantageous techniques used for reducing the rate of post-caesarean-section infectious morbidity. Many prospective studies reported a significant decrease in the incidence of post-sectional febrile morbidity using this prophylactic measure, |