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</B>ATLANTA, Nov. 30 - A type of bacteria that causes fatal toxic shock syndrome rarely in women who have just given birth has been identified as the cause of death in four women within a week of a medical abortions, researchers reported.
The four previously healthy women, ages 18 to 34, died from toxic shock syndrome caused by infection with Clostridium sordellii, following abortions induced with oral Mifeprex (mifepristone, RU-486) and vaginal misoprostol.
The women all died within a day of presenting to the hospital, investigators at the CDC here and health departments in California reported in the Dec. 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Pregnancy/tb/2240
</B>ATLANTA, Nov. 30 - A type of bacteria that causes fatal toxic shock syndrome rarely in women who have just given birth has been identified as the cause of death in four women within a week of a medical abortions, researchers reported.
The four previously healthy women, ages 18 to 34, died from toxic shock syndrome caused by infection with Clostridium sordellii, following abortions induced with oral Mifeprex (mifepristone, RU-486) and vaginal misoprostol.
The women all died within a day of presenting to the hospital, investigators at the CDC here and health departments in California reported in the Dec. 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Pregnancy/tb/2240