Congenital pneumonia with sepsis caused by intrauterine infection of Ureaplasma parvum in a term newborn: a first case report

• Published in: Journal of perinatology Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 359 - 362
• Main Authors: Morioka, I, Fujibayashi, H, Enoki, E, Yokoyama, N, Yokozaki, H, Matsuo, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.05.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/420/256/1980; 692/699/1785; 692/699/255/1318; 692/700/1720; Autopsies; Autopsy; Bacterial pneumonia; Care and treatment; Case reports; Case studies; Chorioamnionitis - microbiology; Diagnosis; Fatal Outcome; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Infants (Newborn); Infections; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mycoplasmatales; Neonates; Pathogenesis; Pediatric Surgery; Pediatrics; perinatal-neonatal-case-presentation; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Bacterial - congenital; Pneumonia, Bacterial - diagnosis; Pneumonia, Bacterial - therapy; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious - microbiology; Risk factors; Sepsis; Sepsis - congenital; Sepsis - diagnosis; Sepsis - therapy; Ureaplasma; Ureaplasma Infections - congenital; Ureaplasma Infections - diagnosis; Ureaplasma Infections - therapy; Ureaplasma parvum; Japan; intrauterine infection; pneumonia; multiplex polymerase chain reaction; term newborn; sepsis

We present an autopsy case of intrauterine pneumonia in a term newborn in whom Ureaplasma parvum was confirmed by PCR examinations, including a novel diagnostic tool for detecting pathogens that caused neonatal infections using multiplex PCR. This is the first report of U. parvum being implicated in...