Disseminated melioidosis in early pregnancy - an unproven cause of foetal loss
Abstract Background: Melioidosis is a potentially life-threatening infection caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Melioidosis is difficult to diagnose due to its diverse clinical manifestations, which often delays administration of appropriate antibiotic therapy. Case...
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Springer Nature
2020
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31392/1/Disseminated%20melioidosis%20in%20early%20pregnancy%20-%20an%20unproven%20cause%20of%20foetal%20loss.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31392/ https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-020-4937-8 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-4937-8 |
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Background: Melioidosis is a potentially life-threatening infection caused by the Gram-negative bacterium
Burkholderia pseudomallei. Melioidosis is difficult to diagnose due to its diverse clinical manifestations, which often
delays administration of appropriate antibiotic therapy.
Case presentation: Melioidosis is uncommon in pregnancy but both spontaneous abortion and neonatal
melioidosis have been reported. We report a case of bacteraemic melioidosis in a young woman with a subsequent
spontaneous abortion, with B. pseudomallei cultured from a high vaginal swab as well as blood.
Conclusion: It remains unclear in this and previously reported cases as to whether the maternal melioidosis was
sexually transmitted.
Keywords: Melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Pregnancy, Abortion |
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