Neonatal Listeriosis: The Importance of Placenta Histological Examination-A Case Report
Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta.
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Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.,
2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta. |
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| Item Description: | 10.1055/s-0030-1271216 2157-6998 2157-7005 |