Placental and fetal pathology in Coxsackie virus A9 infection: a case report.
A 27-year-old patient contracted a Coxsackie virus A9 meningitis at 33 weeks gestational age. Two weeks later a macerated female stillborn infant was delivered. The placenta showed a diffuse perivillous fibrin deposition with villous necrosis and inflammatory cell infiltration and yielded Coxsackie virus A9 on culture. Post-mortem examination of the fetus showed only minimal inflammatory changes in the cardiac connective tissue and the subarachnoid space.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000473:pathology*; D010215:Papio; D010920:Placenta / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000473:pathology*