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Salmonella Mississippi: a rare cause of second trimester miscarriage.

Gyang A, Saunders M

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, North West Regional Hospital, Mersey Campus, TAS, 7307, Australia, tonygyang@hotmail.com.

We report a case of transplacental transmission of Salmonella Mississippi resulting in a spontaneous miscarriage at 18 weeks gestation. The miscarriage occurred 1 week after resolution of an acute diarrheal illness. We recommend evaluation by stool culture for Salmonella infection in pregnant women with diarrheal illness.

Published 1 April 2008 in Arch Gynecol Obstet, 277(5): 437-8.
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