鹦鹉热衣原体
鹦鹉热
医学
怀孕
肺炎
免疫学
噬血细胞性淋巴组织细胞增多症
病态的
病毒学
病理
衣原体
内科学
疾病
生物
遗传学
作者
Michinobu Yoshimura,Kazuo Shimizu,Yukiko Nakura,Kazuki Kawahara,Harutaka Katano,Daisuke Motooka,Makoto Takeuchi,Kisaburo Nagamune,Yoshiaki IMAMURA,Shota Nakamura,Kiyoshi Yasukawa,Hideki Hasegawa,Yoshio Yoshida,Itaru Yanagihara
摘要
Psittacosis is a zoonotic infection caused by Chlamydia psittaci. Most patients present with acute respiratory symptoms and systemic illness. When C. psittaci infects pregnant women, it causes severe clinical manifestations called gestational psittacosis. Here we report a case of gestational psittacosis. Our patient lacked respiratory symptoms, and pathological postmortem examinations revealed severe placentitis. Both DNA and immunohistochemical analyses were positive for C. psittaci from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. The chlamydial DNA in the placenta was about 100 times more abundant than that in the lungs; therefore, the placenta rather than the lungs was the probable target of the C. psittaci infection during this pregnancy. We could not identify the source of infection. Gestational psittacosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis for fever of unknown origin during pregnancy, even in cases lacking respiratory symptoms.
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