CMAJ © 2009 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1 A28-year-old pregnant woman (gravida 2, para 1) presented at 33 weeks’ gestation with abdominal cramps and fever. While the cause of her fever was being investigated, continuous fetal heart rate monitoring showed persistent fetal tachycardia with late decelerations. A cesarean section was performed immediately. A male baby was delivere...

Abstract A nationwide outbreak of human listeriosis in Switzerland was traced to persisting environmental contamination a cheese dairy with Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b, sequence type 6, cluster 7488. Whole-genome sequencing used match clinical isolates sample and samples from numerous sites within the production environment.

Donachie 1997, Radostits et al. 2007), and an ocular form (uveitis, kerato-conjunctivitis, hypopion) (Welchman et al. 1997, Ravary 2000, Laven & Lawrence 2006, Radostits et al. 2007). Listeria has the particularity of forming micro-abscesses in organs. The nervous form is the easiest to diagnose due to its typical clinical pattern. However, the other clinical forms must not be under-estimated. ...

For example, a case-control study of sporadic infections enabled an unprecedented response time during the large U.S. listeriosis outbreak in 2011. Data collected by the Listeria Initiative led to the identification of an association with cantaloupe within days rather than weeks or months (CDC, 2011a). We estimate that the commercial recall of the implicated cantaloupe just 12 days from outbrea...

The composition of the intestinal microbiota has wide reaching effects on the health of an individual, including the development of protective innate immune responses.  In this report, a fecal transplantation approach was used to determine whether resistance to food borne listeriosis was dependent on the murine gut microbiota.  Transplantation of BALB/c/By feces did not increase the susceptibil...