First report of atopobium vaginae bacteremia with fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1684-1686

  Knoester, Marjolein ^a,b   Lashley, Lisa E E L O ^a,b   Wessels, Els ^a,b   Oepkes, Dick ^a,b   Kuijper, Ed J ^a,b  

^a Department of Medical Microbiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CURETTAGE; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS WASTAGE; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VOMITING;

ABORTION, SEPTIC; ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ATOPOBIUM VAGINAE;

EID: 79953866403     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01655-10     Document Type: Article

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