Listeria monocytogenes

Jennie E. Johnson; Eleftherios Mylonakis

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-48255-4.00206-X

Listeria monocytogenes

Jennie E. Johnson, Eleftherios Mylonakis

Houston Methodist

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Abstract

Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive bacillus and zoonotic and foodborne pathogen found worldwide that causes listeriosis. Listeriosis spans the clinical spectrum from self-limited febrile gastroenteritis in immunocompetent people to more severe and invasive disease that mostly affects pregnant women, newborn infants, older adults, and individuals with cell-mediated immunodeficiencies. It is a rare but important pathogen because of the populations it infects and its high rates of mortality.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1-2
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	2543-2549.e2
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9780323482554
ISBN (Print)	9780323775564
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-48255-4.00206-X
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

Listeria
central nervous system infections
foodborne
gastroenteritis
immunosuppressed host
listeriosis
meningitis
neonatal infections
pregnancy-associated infections
zoonosis

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General Medicine

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Infectious Disease

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