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Interest of multisite bacterial screening for the diagnosis of congenital listerisosis with negative blood culture: a case report
Snyers, Diane; Thirion, Sophie; Kalenga, Masendu et al.
201745ème Congrès de la Société Belge de Pédiatrie
 

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Keywords :
congenital listeriosis; multisite bacterial screening
Abstract :
[en] Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is known to cause severe invasive disease in pregnant women and in newborns. Fortunately, despite the wide natural distribution of this pathogen, clinically overt neonatal infections occurs rarely. As a consequence, listeriosis is not always considered for early onset neonatal infection, especially when blood culture is negative. Indeed, identification of listeria in the blood stream by conventional bacteriological methods remains the reference method for diagnosing listeriosis. We report a case of congenital listeriosis with negative blood culture despite typical chorioamnionitis, where the pathogen was cultured in gastric aspirate.Although the disease is rare, congenital listeriosis still remain a possible challenging condition in neonatal practice as revealed by this case report. This also shows the importance of multisite bacterial culture beside conventional blood and CSF culture, in combination with histological examination of the placenta for the diagnosis of congenital listeriosis.
Disciplines :
Pediatrics
Immunology & infectious disease
Author, co-author :
Snyers, Diane ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Master spéc. pédia.
Thirion, Sophie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Master spéc. pédia.
Kalenga, Masendu ;  Université de Liège > Département des sciences cliniques > Néonatologie
PIERART, Julie ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Service néonatologie (CHR)
Language :
English
Title :
Interest of multisite bacterial screening for the diagnosis of congenital listerisosis with negative blood culture: a case report
Publication date :
23 March 2017
Event name :
45ème Congrès de la Société Belge de Pédiatrie
Event date :
23/03/2017
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