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25 cases (14 adults, 11 neonates) of Listeria monocytogenes infection were observed during a 15-month period (1983/1984) at the University Medical Center (CHUV) in Lausanne (Switzerland), in contrast to a mean of only 3 cases per year during the period 1974-1982. Eleven of 14 adults had
Background: Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe infections of the Central Nervous System, such as meningitis or meningoencephalitis, and brain abscesses. Abscesses account for approximately 1-10% of CNS
Although resistance to Listeria monocytogenes infection requires intact T-cell mediated immunity, listeriosis is an infrequent problem in patients with HIV infection and only about 50 patients have been reported to date. Only two patients with HIV and L. monocytogenes have been attended in our
Listeriosis occurred in two patients, a 46-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man, in the course of an underlying malignant disease. The woman had a metastasizing pancreatic apudoma, requiring partial pancreas resection with splenectomy. After the end of cytostatic treatment she developed headaches
BACKGROUND
Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen that primarily affects pregnant women. Cardiac involvement is an uncommon complication of infection. We present a case of a gravida with Listeria bacteremia at 36 weeks of gestation.
METHODS
Two of a patient's blood cultures grew L
Listeriosis is a rare food borne infection which, in the invasive form, presents as bloodstream infection, central nervous system infection, materno-fetal infection, or focal infection. Certain immunosuppressive conditions have been identified as risk factors for severe invasive disease. The
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen which causes life-threatening septicemia and meningoencephalitis. Defective cell-mediated immunity is a well-known risk factor of human listeriosis. We herein present a case of 64-year-old Japanese woman with relapsed and refractory follicular lymphoma
The epidemiology of community-acquired bacterial meningitis (CABM) in adults has changed significantly in the past several years. Despite substantial improvement in patient care, CABM remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Thus, new prognostic factors could help improve patient
BACKGROUND
Listeria monocytogenes rarely causes meningitis, but when it does the course can be severe and case fatality rates high. The article describes clinical and laboratory findings as well as treatment and outcome among patients treated for listerial meningitis at the Department of Infectious
Two cases of rapidly fatal Listeria rhombencephalitis with normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings occurred in previously healthy adults. The infection presented with nausea and headache followed by fever and signs of lower cranial nerve dysfunction, without associated meningismus, and progressed
In June 2001, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services/Public Health conducted a cohort study of an outbreak of acute febrile gastroenteritis among 16 of 44 healthy attendees of a catered party. The median age of the attendees who became ill was 15.5 years. Symptoms included body aches
Infection disease due to Listeria monocytogenes, which is a ubiquitous positive Gram bacillus to the essentially alimentary transmission, listeriosis happens on patients presenting an immunodeficiency. The authors report the two first cases of listeriosis diagnosed at Hopital Principal de Dakar. The
A case of CNS listeriosis in a 49-year-old man, previously in good health, is described. The illness showed a biphasic clinical pattern with a prodromal phase characterized by headache, fever and leukocytosis and subsequent development of pontomedullary cranial nerve paresis. The infection was
Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease that is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Although hepatic dysfunction occurred in 77-96.7% of the scrub typhus patients, its mechanism is unknown. IL-17 is a potent proinflammatory cytokine known for its role in several chronic disease conditions. Abundant IL-17
A 52-year-old woman developed headache with fever followed after several days by a left hemiplegia, paralysis of the right IIIrd, Vth, and VIIth cranial nerves, and a right cerebellar syndrome. The CSF contained 48 white cells/mm3 and 0,80 g/l of proteins. Blood and CSF cultures were negative. In