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placental infections
Tuesday 11 January 2005
Examples
placental CMV infection
placental parvovirus B19 infection
Candida albicans
Fusobacterium sp.
Listeria monocytogenes
Images
Fetal parvovirus B19 infection.Erythroid precursors contain ground-glass nuclear inclusions
Synopsis
acute subchorionitis
acute chorionitis
acute chorioamnionitis
- necrotizing chorioamnionitis
villitis
intervillositis
amnionitis
- acute chorioamnionitis
Etiology
bacterial placental infections
- Staphylococcus sp.
- Streptococcus
- Pneumococcus
- Enteric bacteria
- Listeria
- Campylobacter fetus
- Salmonella
- Brucella
- Mycobacteria
- Francisella tularensis
- Treponema pallidum
- Vibrio cholerae
- Chlamydia
- Mycoplasma
- Rickettsia
- Leptospira
viral placental infections
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV )
- Rubella
- Hepatitis virus (HBV, HCV )
- Herpes simplex
- Varicella zoster
- Variola alastrim
- Vaccinia
- Mumps
- Measles
- Coxsackie
- poliovirus
- Parvovirus B19
- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV )
- ECHOvirus
- HIV
- Western equine encephalitis
parasitic placental infections
- coccidioidomycosis
- Toxoplasma
- Plasmodium malariae
- Trypanosoma
- Schistosoma
References
Satosar A, Ramirez NC, Bartholomew D, Davis J, Nuovo GJ. Histologic correlates of viral and bacterial infection of the placenta associated with severe morbidity and mortality in the newborn. Hum Pathol. 2004 May;35(5):536-45. PMID: 15138926
