Salmonella enteritidis during pregnancy, a rare cause of septic abortion: case report and review of the literature.
(2019) Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology — Vol. 39, n° 4, p. 554-555 (2019)
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- (en) INTRODUCTION Enteric fever is due to Salmonella typhy and paratyphy. The infections associated with nontyphoidal Salmonella are generally self-limited gastroenteritidis (Sànchez-Vargas et al. 2011). They consist of fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and an inflammatory diarrhoea. However, the elderly, infants and those with an impaired immune system due to an HIV infection, immunosuppresive agents, malignancy, organ transplant recipients or pregnancy, may have more severe infections such as transient bacteraemia, meningitis and an endovascular infection (Sànchez -Vargas et al. 2011). The most common extra-intestinal organ compromised is the lung. Other extraintestinal manifestations are meningitis, encephalopathy, endocarditis, pneumonia, empyema, abscess, urinary tract infection, osteomyelitis, cellulitis or arthritis (Sànchez -Vargas et al. 2011). We describe a recent case of Salmonella enteritis during a pregnancy leading to vertical transmission, a septic abortion and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). […]
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Delcourt, C., Yombi, J. C., Vô, B., & Yildiz, H. (2019). Salmonella enteritidis during pregnancy, a rare cause of septic abortion: case report and review of the literature. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 39(4), 554-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443615.2018.1529153 (Original work published 2019)