Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in Pregnant Women in Khoram Abad, Iran

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Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in Pregnant Women in Khoram Abad, Iran

Pegah Shakib¹, Sobhan Ghafourian², Gholamreza Goudarzi¹ , Masoumeh Ghafarzadeh³ and Hossein Noruzian¹

¹Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.

²Clinical Microbiology Reserach Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.

³Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(Spl. Edn.: November):475-477

Received: 24/08/2013 | Accepted: 18/10/2013 | Published: 30/11/2013

Abstract

Listeria monocytogenes is the bacterium that causes the infection listeriosis. Symptomatic infection most commonly occurs in pregnant women, infants, elderly and the immunosuppressed. The aims of current study is to determine the prevalence of listeriosis in pregnant women referred to khoram abad hospital in Iran. for this propuse, 100 vagina swap from pregnant women were subjected for PCR. The results showed negative reaction in all samples. The difference reported among the studies can be due to differences in the population under study include race, culture, geographical region, nutrition and laboratorial diagnosis methods.

Keywords

Listeria monocytogenes, Pregnant women, Iran

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