listeria meningitis


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Related to listeria meningitis: Listeria monocytogenes
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an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes

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Interestingly, research from The Netherlands showed an increase in mortality in patients with Listeria meningitis when a 2006-2012 study was compared with an earlier study from 1998 to 2002; this was attributed to a change in the genotype sequence type of L.
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The causes of death were heart failure, Listeria meningitis, renal failure, sepsis, progressive multifocal leukoen-cephalopathy, and intra-abdominal bleeding.
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Of the 13 patients, 3 had hydrocephalus, presumed to be secondary to Listeria meningitis. The median length of stay for the neonates who were discharged alive was 19 days (IQR 15-20).
A retrospective review of Listeria monocytogenes infection at Tygerberg Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, from 2006 to 2016: Is empirical ampicillin still indicated after the first month of life?
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