title: [Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. Description of a clinically significant case].
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.
authors.affiliation: Ospedale Civile, Casalpusterlengo, Divisione Medicina Generale.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sbalzarini
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Viale
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Ongis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Signaroldi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cassè
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Vimercati
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Belloni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vanelli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parlatore
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Montani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008584:Meningitis, Listeria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Meningite da listeria monocytogenes. Descrizione di un caso clinico significativo.