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