Sbalzarini G, Viale PL, Ongis GA, Signaroldi A, Cassè C, Vimercati ME, Belloni L, Vanelli S, Parlatore A, Montani A. [Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. Description of a clinically significant case].
Minerva Med 1995;
86:499-502. [PMID:
8684674]
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Abstract
Meningitis caused by Listeria monocytogenes is a rare affection: it develops from close contagion as professional illness (veterinarians, butchers) or in newborns by infected mothers; in indirect way for ingestion of contaminated food in subjects at high risk: elderly, immunosuppressed patients, alcoholics, diabetics. Clinically it is not diversified from the other bacterial meningitises. In this paper we present a case of Listeria monocytogenes meningitis in an adult female, without a sure occasion of infection and in absence of the factors of typical risk.
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