Tropical rickettsial illnesses associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 14:51
in Health & Medicine
A recent study from the Thai-Myanmar border highlights the severe and previously under-reported adverse impact of readily treatable tropical rickettsial illnesses, notably scrub typhus and murine typhus, on pregnancy outcomes, finding that more than one third of affected pregnancies resulted either in stillbirth or premature and/or low birth weight babies.