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JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Volume 112, Issue 4, Pages 428-432Publisher
NATL MED ASSOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnma.2020.05.002
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Listeriosis; Pregnancy; Infection; Chorioamnionitis; Maternal fetal medicine; Obstetrics
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Listeria Monocytogenes, a small facultative anaerobic, gram positive, motile bacillus is a rare, but consequential etiologic agent of food borne illness which inordinately impacts immunocompromised individuals. The organism infects many types of animals and contaminates a multitude of foodstuffs such as milk, chicken, beef and vegetables. This microbe additionally has a distinct proclivity to infect the maternal-fetoplacental unit with resultant adverse perinatal outcomes inclusive of spontaneous abortion, preterm delivery, chorioamnionitis, neonatal meningitis and death. We present a case of Listeriosis complicating pregnancy with a subsequent comprehensive review of the literature.
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