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Listeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Natalie C. Klein ,
Paul E. Schoch  and
Burke A. Cunha
Natalie C. Klein
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Department of Pathology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the SUNY School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Paul E. Schoch
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Department of Pathology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the SUNY School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Burke A. Cunha*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Division and the Department of Pathology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and the SUNY School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
*
Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501
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Infections with Listeria monocytogenes have been increasing in incidence over the last decade. Listeria species are found widely in the environment, frequently isolated from the soil, water, sewage, and from a variety of wild and domestic animals. Outbreaks of human listeriosis have been linked to contaminated coleslaw, milk, and other dairy products. Since Listeria is an intracellular pathogen, it is not surprising that the majority of symptomatic cases have occurred in individuals receiving immunosup pressive therapy, or with some defect in their cell-mediated immune system.

Type
Topics in Clinical Microbiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , May 1991 , pp. 311 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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