[Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. Description of a clinically significant case]

Minerva Med. 1995 Nov;86(11):499-502.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Meningitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes is a rare affection: it develops from close contagion as professional illness (veterinarians, butchers) or in newborns by infected mothers; in indirect way for ingestion of contaminated food in subjects at high risk: elderly, immunosuppressed patients, alcoholics, diabetics. Clinically it is not diversified from the other bacterial meningitises. In this paper we present a case of Listeria monocytogenes meningitis in an adult female, without a sure occasion of infection and in absence of the factors of typical risk.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Listeria monocytogenes / isolation & purification*
  • Meningitis, Listeria / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Listeria / etiology
  • Meningitis, Listeria / microbiology*
  • Risk Factors