PATIENT Female, 58 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Listeria septicemia Symptoms: Nausea • vomitting • high fever • apathetic intelligence • repeated convulsion MEDICATION Levofloxacin Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Hematology Objective: Rare disease. BACKGROUND Multiple myeloma is a hematological malignancy that frequently causes secondary diabetes due to chemotherapy using hormones and infection due to...

Recent evidence suggests that local immunoregulation may prevent rejection of the placenta by the mother. This local immunoregulation may also compromise the response to placental infection. Listeria monocytogenes infection in 121 pregnant mice and 1,050 fetoplacental units was examined and the kinetics of bacterial growth in various maternal and fetal tissues were determined. A subset of pregn...

In this study, we surveyed hogs (n = 300) as well as pork products (ground pork and raw chitterlings) for Listeria monocytogenes. Pig specimens collected before (tonsil swabs) and after slaughter (tonsils, lymph nodes, carcass swabs, and rectal contents) were examined for L. monocytogenes by enrichment with conventional enrichment broths followed by subculturing to selective agar. A multiplex p...

Detection of L. monocytogenes is often limited by the performance of the enrichment media used to support bacterial growth to detectable levels. Because Listeria may exist at extremely low levels in foods, sample enrichment protocols must amplify these low initial populations to detectable limits. Listeria may also exist in an injured state in food products as a result of processing treatments ...

389 Abstract: Raw milk samples obtained from the Foundation of Milk Industry, three private dairy companies and individual dairy farms in Sivas, were tested for the presence of Listeria species. A total of 100 raw milk samples were analysed by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and two-stage enrichment techniques. Two-stage enrichment procedure was found to be more effective than FDA method in ...

Ag-presenting dendritic cells (DCs) must survive bacterial infection to present Ag information to naive T cells. The greater ability of DCs' host defense is evident from the report that DCs are more resistant to Listeria monocytogenes than macrophages. However, the molecular mechanism of this resistance is unclear. We found that Listeria replicate more slowly in wild-type DCs compared with fasc...

The iap gene encodes the protein p60, which is common to all Listeria species. A previous comparison of the DNA sequences indicated conserved and species-specific gene portions. Based on these comparisons, a combination consisting of only five different primers that allows the specific detection and differentiation of Listeria species with a single multiplex PCR and subsequent gel analysis was ...

Dobeic M., Kenda E., Mičunovič J., Zdovc I. (2011): Airborne Listeria spp. in the red meat processing industry. Czech J. Food Sci., 29: 441–447. The aim of this study was to determine the potential presence of the airborne Listeria spp. and its correlation with the aerobic mesophilic bacteria and Listeria carcass contamination in three red meat slaughtering and three processing plants. Airborne...

objective: listeria monocytogenes is a facultative, gram-positive bacterium which is found in soil, water, decaying vegetables, raw milk, and contaminated dairies. listeria monocytogenes causes listeriosis. listeriosis is a zoonosis disease, which transfers from animals to humans by animal feces and contaminated dairies. listeriosis causes the flu like disease or self-limited enteritis, but it ...