Listeriosis in Pregnant Women in Morocco: A Case Report
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چکیده
Listeriosis is a rare infectious disease. Pregnant women with listeriosis represent 1/3 of all listeriosis cases. Listeriosis is a foodborne disease. Sporadic as well as epidemic cases of listeriosis are usually related to contaminated processed food, especially meat dishes served in fast-food restaurants and dairy products. Pregnant women are at an increased risk for listeriosis infection. Unfortunately the symptoms are not specific and the diagnosis presents a considerable challenge. Although the literature offers some case reports on a complicated course of listeriosis during pregnancy the infection usually runs a mild course in pregnant women. Regardless, fetal or neonatal infection is related to very high risk of lethal complications in the newborn, among others: sepsis, meningitis or pneumonia. The authors report a case of a 26-year-old primigravida woman with listeriosis. Throughout this case they describe the course of the infection, diagnostic process and treatment of this disease.
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Listeria monocytogenes, a gram-positive bacillus growing in 4˚c, is a ubiquitous pathogen with food-borne transmission, mostly. Listeriosis is an uncommon disease in a healthy immunocompetent individual, whereas two thirds of listeriosis cases have occurred in immunocompromised persons in whom it causes high mortality rate. The rest of listeriasis cases (1/3) have been seen in pregnan...
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