First report of Atopobium vaginae bacteremia with fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling.

Marjolein Knoester, Lisa E E L O Lashley, Els Wessels, Dick Oepkes, Ed J Kuijper

Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. m.knoester@lumc.nl

Journal of clinical microbiology 2011 Apr

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Infectious complications after chorionic villus sampling (CVS) are rare (<0.1%) but can lead to maternal sepsis and spontaneous abortion. We report the first bacteremia with Atopobium vaginae and suggest A. vaginae to be a pathogenic microorganism that can lead to intrauterine infection and fetal death following CVS.

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Marjolein Knoester, Lisa E E L O Lashley, Els Wessels, Dick Oepkes, Ed J Kuijper. First report of Atopobium vaginae bacteremia with fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling. Journal of clinical microbiology. 2011 Apr;49(4):1684-6