Listeria monocytogenes causing endovascular infection.
Listeria monocytogenes is an uncommon cause of mycotic aneurysms, endocarditis, and other endovascular infections. When they occur, these infections usually involve patients with relatively normal host defenses, but with abnormal vascular intima or cardiac valves. We have reported a Listeria monocytogenes infection at the site of a posttraumatic aortic aneurysm.
Lamothe
M
M
Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee.
Simmons
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B
Gelfand
M
M
Schoettle
P
P
Owen
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E
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000382:microbiology; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008088:Listeriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male