Fatal sepsis due to escherichia coli after second-trimester amniocentesis

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-99

  Ayadi, Seamy ^a,b   Carbillon, Lionel ^a   Varlet, Catherine ^b   Uzan, Miclielle ^a   Pourriat, Jean Louis ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care ^*  (France)

^b HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Clostridium perfringens; Escherichia coli; Pregnancy; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTEREMIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 0032013487     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020814     Document Type: Article

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