John Newman, Caitlin Hughes, Karen C. Bloch, Khalil J. Deveaux, Scott Allen, Thao T. Truong, Behzad Najafian, Abelardo C. Moncayo, Lili Tao, Joshua Lieberman, Hernán Correa
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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.
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