In developed countries, pregnancy-related listeriosis accounts for 20-43% of total invasive listeriosis. This work describes the first pregnancy-related listeriosis survey in Italy based on two data sources, that is, mandatory notification system and regional laboratory-based network. Out of 610 listeriosis cases reported over a 10-year period, 40 were pregnancy-related (6.6%). Among these, 29 ...

To assess the impact of preventive measures by the food industry, we analyzed food monitoring data as well as trends in the incidence of listeriosis estimated through three independent sources: the National Reference Center of Listeriosis; a laboratory-based active surveillance network; and two consecutive nationwide surveys of public hospital laboratories. From 1987 to 1997, the incidence of l...

Listeriosis is characterized by bacteremia or meningitis. We searched for listeriosis case series and outbreak investigations published in English by 2013, and assessed the strength of evidence for foodborne acquisition among patients who ate hospital food. We identified 30 reports from 13 countries. Among the case series, the median proportion of cases considered to be hospital-acquired was 25...

BACKGROUND Listeriosis is a foodborne infection with a low incidence but a high case fatality rate. Unlike common foodborne diseases, the incubation period can be long. The first incubation periods were documented during a large listeriosis outbreak published in 1987 by Linnan and al. in the New England Journal of Medicine (range: 3 days to 70 days). Data on the incubation period of listeriosis...

a six month old male hamster living in a colony of hamster in the animal house of urmia university, urmia, iran, was found with restlessness and circling signs. the clinical examination revealed symptoms and signs of encephalitis. therefore microbiological and histopathologic studies were conducted after euthanizing the animal. finally, the results of laboratory tests demonstrated listeria mono...

Listeriosis is a major public health concern associated with high hospitalization and mortality rates. The objective of this work was to summarize evidence on the associations between risk factors sporadic cases by meta-analysing outcomes from currently published case-control studies. Suitable scientific articles were identified through systematic literature search, subjected methodological qua...

The Gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a severe food-borne infection. Pregnant women are at risk of contracting listeriosis, which can potentially lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, and congenital neonatal infections. While other systemic bacterial infections may result in adverse pregnancy outcomes at com...

Listeriosis is a foodborne disease that can cause severe illness manifesting as gastroenteritis or invasive disease. While it accounts for a fraction of all notified foodborne illness in New South Wales, all cases are hospitalised and outcomes are potentially serious. Listeriosis follows ingestion of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, found in soil, water and decaying vegetation, and commonl...

INTRODUCTION Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is known to cause severe invasive disease in pregnant women and in newborns. Fortunately, despite the wide natural distribution of this pathogen, clinically overt neonatal infections occurs rarely. As a consequence, listeriosis is not always considered for early onset neonatal infection, especially when blood culture is negative. Indeed, identification o...