ALLMedicine™ Listeriosis Center

May 15th, 2022 - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious public health issue. Due to resistance to current antibiotics and a low rate of development of new classes of antimicrobials, AMR is a leading cause of death worldwide. Listeria monocytogenes is a deadly...

May 10th, 2022 - Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, and people with hypoimmunity such as pregnant women, infants and fetuses are at high risk of invasive infection. Although the incidence of listeriosis is low, the fatality rate is high. Therefore, cont...

May 7th, 2022 - Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen, typically associated with contaminated dairy products and deli meats. L. monocytogenes can lead to severe infections in high-risk patient populations; in neonates, listeriosis is rare but carries a h...

Apr 6th, 2022 - Invasive listeriosis, caused by Listeria (L.) monocytogenes, is a severe foodborne infection, especially for immunocompromised individuals. The aim of our investigation was the identification and analysis of listeriosis outbreaks in Germany with s...

Mar 30th, 2022 - Pregnancy-associated listeriosis is a severe infectious disease and potentially leads to fetal/neonatal fatal, while limited information on pregnancy-associated listeriosis is available in China. This study aimed to reveal the clinical characteris...

Nov 21st, 2014 - Listeriosis is predominantly a foodborne illness, with sporadic and outbreak-related cases tied to consumption of food contaminated with listeria (Listeria monocytogenes). The incidence of listeriosis associated with pregnancy is approximately 13 ...

Mar 22nd, 2021 - Context: Listeriosis is a foodborne infection responsible for severe disease. Surveillance of human listeriosis in France is based on both mandatory reporting of cases and voluntary submission of L. monocytogenes strains to the National Reference ...

About 1,600 people in the United States get sick from Listeria each year. While the infection is rare, in 2011, an unusual source-cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria-caused one of the deadliest foodborne outbreaks in the US.

Aug 21st, 2019 - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s health ministry issued an international alert over the country’s biggest ever listeriosis outbreak on Wednesday as the number of people affected rose to 150, including one fatality. Amid concerns over possible infection ...

Aug 20th, 2019 - MADRID (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Spanish woman died on Tuesday, 56 people have been hospitalized and dozens more taken ill in what is believed to be the biggest outbreak of listeriosis recorded in Spain, the health minister said. A nationwide aler...

Aug 1st, 2019 - LONDON (Reuters) - Another person has died in a listeria outbreak caused by eating contaminated food in hospital, bringing the total number of deaths to six, Public Health England said on Thursday. The individual who died at Western Sussex Hospita...

CDC collaborated with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Listeria can cause a serious, life-threatening...