“…I n Australia, ovine abortions due to Listeria infection have been recorded in New South Wales by Hindmarsh and Blumer (1932), in Queensland (Moule-1953) and have been suspected in Victoria ( Paulsen and Moule-1953) ; the outbreak recorded by Hindmarsh and Blumer (1932) being the first recorded i n this country. Olsen (1954) states that abortions do not always occur as part of an outbreak of the nervous type and Paulsen and Moule (1953) observed that the ewes in their series with the fetal or uterine type did not show the nervous symptoms associated with the central nervous system form of listeriosis. The only case apparently recorded, in which the nervous and fetal types of listeriosis were observed concurrently, was in a bovine case reported by Smith et al (1955).…”