Neonatal Listeriosis: The Importance of Placenta Histological Examination—A Case Report

Neonatal Listeriosis: The Importance of Placenta Histological Examination—A Case Report

Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Amarilis Batista Teixeira, Ana Maria Arruda Lana, Joel Alves Lamounier, Orlando Pereira da Silva, Silvana Maria Eloi-Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2011-01-01
Series:American Journal of Perinatology Reports
Subjects:
Neonatal listeriosis
chorioamnionitis
sepsis
Listeria monocytogenes
cytokine
Online Access:https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0030-1271216
Description
Summary:Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta.
ISSN:2157-6998
2157-7005

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