Bacterial infection and human fetal wastage

Lessing, J.B.; Amster, R.; Berger, S.A.; Peyser, M.R.

Journal of Reproductive Medicine 34(12): 975-976

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0024-7758
PMID: 2695648
Document Number: 346910
Twenty-eight of 57 fetuses delivered after intrauterine death were found to have a variety of aerobic and facultative bacteria in the heart, anus, placenta, brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Subclinical maternal bacteremia, possibly originating in the urinary tract, appears to be a common cause of second- and third-trimester fetal demise.

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