Table 1.
Maternal infections borne by vectors and animals and associated with stillbirth
| Organism | Reservoir | |
|---|---|---|
| Vector-borne infections | ||
| Malaria | Plasmodium falciparum | Mosquito |
| Lyme disease | Borrelia burgdorferi | Tick |
| Relapsing fever | Borrelia duttonnii | Tick |
| Tick-borne relapsing fever | Borrelia recurrentis | Tick |
| African sleeping sickness | Trypanosoma brucei | Tsetse fly |
| Chagas' disease | Trypanosoma cruzi | Triatomine (kissing bug) |
| Dengue fever | Dengue virus | Mosquito |
| Tularaemia | Francisella tularensis | Tick or deerfly, animal carcasses, contaminated food or water |
| Animal-borne infections | ||
| Listeriosis | Listeria monocytogenes | Domesticated animal products |
| Anthrax | Bacillus anthracis | Domesticated animals |
| Q fever | Coxiella burnetti | Domesticated animals |
| Brucellosis | Brucella melitenses | Domesticated animals |
| Leptospirosis | Leptospira interrogans | Dogs, livestock, wild animals |
| Toxoplasmosis | Toxoplasma gondii | Warm-blooded animals |
| Lymphocytic choriomeningitis | Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus | House mouse |
| Ljungan virus | Ljungan virus | Wild rodents (bank voles) |
| Streptococcus porcinus | Streptococcus porcinus | Swine |