Two patients with severe chlamydial sepsis in pregnancy are described and compared with previously published case reports. The infections appear to have been zoonotic, the patients acquiring their infections as a result of exposure to enzootic abortion of ewes. This is an important but poorly recognised human infection which because of its severity in pregnancy deserves consideration in patients with an appropriate occupational history.
R. Phillip Dellinger, Mitchell M. Levy, Jean Carlet, Julian Bion, Margaret M. Parker, Roman Jaeschke, Konrad Reinhart, Derek C. Angus, Christian Brun‐Buisson, Richard Beale, Thierry Calandra, Jean-François Dhainaut, Herwig Gerlach, Maurene A. Harvey, John J. Marini, John C. Marshall, Marco Ranieri, Graham Ramsay, Jonathan Sevransky, Bruce Thompson, Sean R. Townsend, Jeffrey S. Vender, Janice L. Zimmerman, Jean Louis Vincent
Discussion(0)
No comments yet. Be the first to comment.