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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