A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus <i>Bacterium monocytogenes</i> (n.sp.)

Murray, Edward; Webb, R. A.; Swann, M. B. R.

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“…It was first isolated from a human patient with meningitis in France in 1921 (Dumont and Cotoni, 1921) and thereafter from a wide range of mammalian and non-mammalian species worldwide (Murray et al, 1926;Low and Donachie, 1997). Although an association between listeriosis in animals and the ingestion of contaminated feed had already been suggested in the 1960s, it was not until the 1980s that L. monocytogenes was recognized as a causative agent of food-borne outbreaks in humans (Schlech et al, 1983).…”

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Listeria monocytogenes infection in ruminants: Is there a link to the environment, food and human health? A review

Walland¹,

Lauper²,

Frey³

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Listeria (L.) monocytogenes is widely distributed in the environment, but also has the ability to cause serious invasive disease in ruminants and humans. This review provides an overview of listeriosis in ruminants and discusses our insufficient understanding of reservoirs and possible cycling ofL. monocytogenes between animal and human hosts, food and the environment. It indicates gaps in our knowledge of the role of genetic subtypes in L. monocytogenes ecology and virulence as well as risk factors, in vivo diagnostics and pathogenesis of listeriosis in ruminants. Filling these gaps will contribute to improving the control of L. monocytogenes and enhancing disease prevention. As the prevalence of listeriosis in ruminants in Switzerland is likely to be underestimated, propositions concerning improvement options for surveillance of listeriosis in ruminants are provided. Summary Listeria (L.) monocytogenes is widely distributed in the environment, but also has the ability to cause serious invasive disease in ruminants and humans. This review provides an overview of listeriosis in ruminants and discusses our insufficient understanding of reservoirs and possible cycling of L. monocytogenes between animal and human hosts, food and the environment. It indicates gaps in our knowledge of the role of genetic subtypes in L. monocytogenes ecology and virulence as well as risk factors, in vivo diagnostics and pathogenesis of listeriosis in ruminants. Filling these gaps will contribute to improving the control of L. monocytogenes and enhancing disease prevention. As the prevalence of listeriosis in ruminants in Switzerland is likely to be underestimated, propositions concerning improvement options for surveillance of listeriosis in ruminants are provided.

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Listeria monocytogenes infection in ruminants: Is there a link to the environment, food and human health? A review

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Frey³

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“…Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive bacillus first described in England causing a disease characterised by a mononuclear leukocytosis in laboratory animals (Murray et al, 1926). In 1929, Nyfeldt, in Denmark, isolated the same organism from infectious mononucleosis-like infections in man (Gray and Killinger, 1966).…”

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Aspects of the epidemiology of human Listeria monocytogenes infections in Britain 1967-1984; the use of serotyping and phage typing

McLauchlin

Audurier²,

Taylor

1986

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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Summary. Strains of Listeria monocytogenes from 475 cases of human listeriosis collected during [1967][1968][1969][1970][1971][1972][1973][1974][1975][1976][1977][1978][1979][1980][1981][1982][1983][1984], belonged to one of three serogroups (1/2,3 or 4). They were phage typed with a set of 28 phages to investigate three aspects of the epidemiology of listeriosis. (i) Three patients each had two episodes of listeriosis, 3 months to 2 years apart, with strains of the same serogroup and indistinguishable by phage typing.(ii) Ten episodes of possible cross-infection between pairs of neonates in the same hospital occurred; the first baby was ill at or within 1 day of birth, and the second baby became ill 8-12 days after contact with the first. In each pair the L. monocytogenes strains were of the same serogroup and indistinguishable by phage typing. (iii) In three clusters of cases there may have been a common source of infection. L. monocytogenes strains from 10 of 1 1 cases of listeriosis in the Carlisle area in Ju1.-Dec. 198 1 were of the same serogroup; nine strains were non-phage-typable. The second cluster involved four adults treated at one hospital and the third a pair of neonates who were ill shortly after birth. In each cluster, strains were of the same serogroup, and were indistinguishable by phage typing. These last two clusters occurred during a short period when an unusually high proportion of strains from all cases of human listeriosis in Britain were indistinguishable by phage typing from the cluster strains, suggesting the possibility of common source infection.

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“…Since the original paper of its discovery published ninety years ago [1] [29]. In absence of vitamin B12, the RS, aspocR is produced and inhibits the translation of pocR.…”

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“…bacillus responsible for epidemic cases of mononucleosis in rabbits and guinea pigs in animal care houses in Cambridge (UK) and named as Bacillus monocytogenes [1]. A few years later, it was shown to cause sporadic cases of meningitis in humans [2] and was subsequently recognized as an opportunistic food-borne pathogen of human, cattle and wild animals [3].…”

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How the Study of Listeria Monocytogenes has Led to New Concepts in Biology

Rolhion

Cossart

2017

Future Microbiol.

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The opportunistic intracellular bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has in 30 years emerged as an exceptional bacterial model system in infection biology. Research on this bacterium has provided considerable insight into how pathogenic bacteria adapt to mammalian hosts, invade eukaryotic cells, move intracellularly, interfere with host cell functions and disseminate within tissues. It also contributed to unveil features of normal host cells pathways and unsuspected functions of previously known cellular proteins. This review provides an updated overview of our knowledge on this pathogen. In many examples, findings on Listeria monocytogenes provided the basis for new concepts in bacterial regulation, cell biology and infection processes.

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A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus Bacterium monocytogenes (n.sp.)

Cited by 562 publications

References 6 publications

Listeria monocytogenes infection in ruminants: Is there a link to the environment, food and human health? A review

Listeria monocytogenes infection in ruminants: Is there a link to the environment, food and human health? A review

Aspects of the epidemiology of human Listeria monocytogenes infections in Britain 1967-1984; the use of serotyping and phage typing

How the Study of Listeria Monocytogenes has Led to New Concepts in Biology

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