title: [Sausage-related Listeria monocytogenes infection].
abstract: Infection with Listeria monocytogenes is rare and mainly seen in immunosuppressed patients. Infection with L. monocytogenes has a mortality rate of 30%. We present a case report of L. monocytogenes bacteraemia and endocarditis in a 70-year-old man with several co-morbidities and following four major surgical procedures. This illustrates the findings and characteristics in one of the 16 patients who died in 2013 and 2014 this summer due to sausage-related L. monocytogenes infection.
authors.affiliation: Kardiologisk Afdeling B, Hjertecentret, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 København Ø. martin.frydland@me.com.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frydland
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bundgaard
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: Carl Gustav
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Dahlstrøm
authors.forename: Nikolaj
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ihlemann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008297:Male; D008461:Meat Products / Q000382:microbiology; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents