Nosocomial Neonatal Listeria monocytogenes Transmission by Stethoscope

Nosocomial Neonatal Listeria monocytogenes Transmission by Stethoscope.

Hagerstown, MD 72 hours after the onset of symptoms, and then transported to the Network Laboratory of Chinese National Influenza Surveillance in Wuxi CDC. Seven viruses were detected with real time PCR methods. All Hadvpositive nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens were inoculated into Hep-2 cells and were observed daily until an evident cytopathic effect was observed. Partial hexon genes were amp...

Endophthalmitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from the aqueous chamber of an immunodepressed patient with acute hypertensive uveitis, who developed a dark hypopyon and pigment dispersion. No extraocular septic focus was found. Treatment was successful with intravitreal vancomycin, anterior chamber irrigation with vancomycin, orally administered ciprofloxacin, and topical fortified vancomycin.

The stethoscope and potential nosocomial infection.

Animal models for oral transmission of Listeria monocytogenes

Listeria monocytogenes has been recognized as a food borne pathogen in humans since the 1980s, but we still understand very little about oral transmission of L. monocytogenes or the host factors that determine susceptibility to gastrointestinal infection, due to the lack of an appropriate small animal model of oral listeriosis. Early feeding trials suggested that many animals were highly resist...

Listeria monocytogenes - Strain Diversity Demonstrated by Genotyping