Listeria monocytogenes. Macroabscesses of placenta
Steele, P.E.; Jacobs, D.S.
Obstetrics and Gynecology 53(1): 124-127
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-7844 PMID: 760011 Document Number: 150172
Macroabscesses of placenta caused by Listeria monocytogenes were observed in a 37-year-old febrile primigravida. She was prematurely delivered of a depressed 2310-g infant, who was resuscitated and promptly treated with antibiotics. Mother and child are well at 10-year followup. Although perinatal listeriosis with placentitis is not rare, its presentation as macroabscesses of the placenta has until now gone unreported in the English language literature.