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Obstetrics & Gynecology 1972;40:91-97
© 1972 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Listeriosis as a Cause of Fetal Wastage

CHARLES S. KELLY, MD and JACK L. GIBSON, MD, FACOG

From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madigan General Hospital, Tacoma, Wash 98431.

Abstract

Premature labor and delivery of a stillborn infant in which Listeria monocytogenes was cultured from the fetus, placenta and uterine cavity is reported. The literature concerning infection with L monocytogenes is reviewed, with particular attention to the unusual clinical syndrome of intrauterine infection of the fetus known as miliary granulomatosis or granutomatosis infantiseptica, observed in the case presented. Epidemiology and bacteriologic properties are discussed. The infrequent isolation of this organism is thought to be due to a low index of suspicion and to its resemblance to more commonly isolated, morphologically similar, bacteria.






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