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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1998 Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitous in nature and is part of the normal flora of the distal portion of the intestinal tract of numerous animal species. Listeriosis is an emerging food borne disease that is responsible for approximately 1,700 cases of human illness each year and 650 deaths.
J, Cooper, R D, Walker
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013 ABSTRACTCutaneous infections due toListeria monocytogenesare rare. Typically, infections manifest as nonpainful, nonpruritic, self-limited, localized, papulopustular or vesiculopustular eruptions in healthy persons. Most cases follow direct inoculation of the skin in veterinarians or farmers who have exposure to animal products of conception.
Casey E, Godshall +2 more
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Italian Journal of Food Safety, 2012 The study was aimed to predict the maximum concentration of Listeria monocytogenes during the shelf life in chicken liver paté. The prediction has been performed using the integrated challenge test: a test based on the interaction between ...
Paolo Matteini +3 more
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BMJ, 1992 Listeriosis occurs in a variety of animals including humans, and most often affects the pregnant uterus, the central nervous system (CNS) or the bloodstream. During pregnancy, infection spreads to the foetus, which will either be born severely ill or die in-utero. In non-pregnant animals, listeriosis usually presents as meningitis, encephalitis.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000 Listeria monocytogenes emerged as an important foodborne pathogen in the latter part of the 20th century. Clinical syndromes caused by this microorganism include sepsis in the immunocompromised patient, meningoencephalitis in infants and adults, and febrile gastroenteritis. Focal infections at other sites are less frequent.
Walter F. Schlech, David Acheson
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1977 Summary The incidence, clinical picture, natural history, epidemiology and sequelae of perinatal listeriosis are discussed along with treatment and diagnosis.
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1975 SummaryThree cases of neonatal listeriosis are reported. This local incidence in a busy neonatal unit over a 10-year period would agree with other reports that the condition is rare in the United Kingdom. Two cases had septicaemia and one developed septicaemia and meningitis, contrasting with the previous view that the commonest presentation is with ...
S, Variend, I, Blumenthal
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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2007 In Western developed countries, Listeria monocytogenesis not an uncommon pathogen in neonates. However, neonatal listeriosis has rarely been reported in Taiwan. We describe two cases collected from a single medical institute between 1990 and 2005. Case 1 was a male premature baby weighing 1558 g with a gestational age of 31 weeks whose mother had fever
Shih-Yu Chen +7 more
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, 2023 Listeria monocytogenes is a dangerous infection that can result in listeriosis. After consuming contaminated food, people typically get listeriosis. Pregnant women, infants, elderly persons and those with compromised immune systems are the disease's main targets. Other groups rarely have listeria infection-related illness.
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