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The objective was to investigate whether phagocytes from healthy and septic newborns have a developmental deficiency in their capacity to recognize, phagocytize and generate hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) in response to Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. TLR expression and phagocytic ability of neutrophils and monocytes from 44 healthy preterm and term neonates, from 13 newborns with late-onset sepsis and from 24 healthy adults were determined using flow cytometry, and H₂O₂ production was measured by dihydrorhodamine test. TLR-2 and TLR-4 expressions were similar among the groups. The phagocytic ability of monocytes and neutrophils exposed to E. coli and S. aureus in healthy and septic neonates was significantly reduced compared to that of adults. Monocytes from septic newborns exposed to E. coli had higher H₂O₂ production than those of the other groups. The oxidative burst of …