Neonatal Listeriosis: The Importance of Placenta Histological Examination—A Case Report

Abstract

Neonatal listeriosis is not a rare disease, but it is infrequently diagnosed and reported in the literature. Herein we report a case of listeria lethal sepsis, followed by increased cytokines levels in the cord blood, in which diagnosis was made possible by histological examination of the placenta.

Keywords

• Neonatal listeriosis
• chorioamnionitis
• sepsis
• Listeria monocytogenes
• cytokine