2.13 Can Lyme disease affect pregnancy?
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2.13 Can Lyme disease affect pregnancy?
Lyme disease can potentially adversely affect pregnancy. In 1985,
researchers published the first proof of maternal-fetal transmission of
Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb): A baby died shortly after birth and Bb
spirochetes were found in the infant's spleen, kidney, and bone marrow.
(Schlesinger P, Duray P, Burke B, Steere A, Stillman A. Maternal-fetal
transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Annals of
Internal Med. 1985:(Vol 103) 67-68.)
To date, miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, neonatal deaths (rare),
and congenital Lyme disease have all been described in the medical
literature.
For more information:
Pregnancy and Lyme Disease
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/pregnancy-links.html
LD: Abstracts on Pregnancy & Fetus
http://www.x-l.net/Lyme/FetalLD97.htm
Abstracts (from 1980s) LD & Pregnancy
http://www.sky.net/~mary/pregindex.html
See also: Gardner, MD, Tessa. "Lyme Disease," Chapter 11, in Infectious
Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant. 4th edition, Jack S. Remington,
Jerome O. Klein, eds. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1995, pp. 447-528.
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