[Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. Description of a clinically significant case].
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.
Sbalzarini
G
G
Ospedale Civile, Casalpusterlengo, Divisione Medicina Generale.
Viale
P L
PL
Ongis
G A
GA
Signaroldi
A
A
Cassè
C
C
Vimercati
M E
ME
Belloni
L
L
Vanelli
S
S
Parlatore
A
A
Montani
A
A
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
Meningite da listeria monocytogenes. Descrizione di un caso clinico significativo.