Brain Abscess Due to Listeria monocytogenes: Case Report and Literature Review

Dee, Robert R.; Lorber, Bennett

doi:10.1093/clinids/8.6.968

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“…In such cases, bacteremia is almost always present, and 25% of patients have concomitant meningitis, as evidenced by isolation of L. monocytogenes from the CSF. Both of these features are rare in other forms of bacterial brain abscess [82]. About one-half of cases occur in groups known to be at risk for listerial infection.…”

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Listeriosis

Lorber

1997

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Listeriosis

Lorber

1997

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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“…Meningitis and meningoencephalitis are the two most common manifestations in cases not associated with pregnancy (49, 140,252,271,296). The majority of brain abscesses also occur in individuals who are compromised by underlying medical conditions or who are receiving immunosuppressive therapy (77,102). In contrast, rhombencephalitis, a primary infection of the brain stem, is clearly different since it is found predominantly in noncompromised adults (15,386).…”

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Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Intracellular Bacteria

2004

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Infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is a severe and frequently fatal event during the course of many diseases caused by microbes with predominantly intracellular life cycles. Examples of these include the facultative intracellular bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Brucella and Salmonella spp. and obligate intracellular microbes of the Rickettsiaceae family and Tropheryma whipplei. Unfortunately, the mechanisms used by intracellular bacterial pathogens to enter the CNS are less well known than those used by bacterial pathogens with an extracellular life cycle. The goal of this review is to elaborate on the means by which intracellular bacterial pathogens establish infection within the CNS. This review encompasses the clinical and pathological findings that pertain to the CNS infection in humans and includes experimental data from animal models that illuminate how these microbes enter the CNS. Recent experimental data showing that L. monocytogenes can invade the CNS by more than one mechanism make it a useful model for discussing the various routes for neuroinvasion used by intracellular bacterial pathogens

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“…Additional syndromes include abscesses of the brain (30) and spinal cord (119), endocarditis (7,47), endophthalmitis (6), osteomyelitis (63), and septic arthritis (17). Fever, ataxia, seizures, depressed consciousness, and altered mental status are frequent presenting symptoms of central nervous system listeriosis.…”

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Epidemiology of human listeriosis

1991

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During the 1980s, investigation of several large epidemics of listeriosis confirmed that transmission of L. monocytogenes in food causes human disease. Progress in laboratory detection and subtyping of the organism has enhanced our ability to compare human and environmental isolates of L. monocytogenes. Transmission by foodborne organisms is now recognized as causing both epidemic and sporadic listeriosis. Continued study of dietary risk factors associated with listeriosis is needed in order to develop dietary recommendations for the expanding population at increased risk of disease. Current research application of new molecular methods to the study of L. monocytogenes may improve the ability to diagnose pregnancy-associated disease and permit the rapid detection and control of L. monocytogenes in the food supply.

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Brain Abscess Due to Listeria monocytogenes: Case Report and Literature Review

Cited by 82 publications

References 60 publications

Listeriosis

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Invasion of the Central Nervous System by Intracellular Bacteria

Epidemiology of human listeriosis

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