Infection by Tickborne Bacterium Candidatus Midichloria Associated with First Trimester Pregnancy Loss, Tennessee, USA.

ABSTRACT: A previously healthy 26-year-old woman in middle Tennessee, USA, experienced a first trimester pregnancy loss after multiple tick bites. Histopathology, 16S rRNA sequencing, and electron microscopy examination of the products of conception revealed an infection by a bacterium within the Candidatus Midichloria genus.

SUBMITTER: Newman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11845134 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature