Complications
Complication
Timeframe
Likelihood
short term
high
Septic abortion is due to chorioamnionitis or transplacental transmission, with the generalized formation of microabscesses in the embryo and death (granulomatosis infantiseptica).
In one national observational cohort study, almost one quarter of women experienced fetal loss.[56]
short term
low
Complication of listerial endocarditis.
long term
medium
About one third of patients with listerial meningitis develop some degree of residual neurologic complication.[1]
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