“…In addition, at least 11 patients (16.2%) were severely immunocompromized by solid organ transplantation, leukemia or lymphoma, corticosteroid therapy, haemodialysis or AIDS. 11,19,20,33,48,52,53,62 Seven patients had solid cancer and four of them had a colonic adenocarcinoma. 46,54,59 Although an association between listeriosis and gastrointestinal cancer has not been previously formulated, this possibility must be taken into account.…”