Listeria meningitis in adults

Calder, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)63384-3

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“…derly individuals, with high case-fatality rates (24%-62%) [1,5,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]; however, all previous data on Listeria meningitis in adults were retrospective. We performed the first prospective nationwide cohort study in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis [2].…”

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Community-Acquired Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis in Adults

Brouwer

Beek

Heckenberg

et al. 2006

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Community-Acquired Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis in Adults

Brouwer

Beek

Heckenberg

et al. 2006

Clinical Infectious Diseases

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“…monocytogenes is a gram-positive, facultative anaerobic bacterium that primarily causes bacteremia and meningitis, particularly in elderly adults, pregnant women, and patients with a malignancy, kidney disease, liver disease, diabetes, or alcoholism (1). The average annual incidence of L. monocytogenes infection was 0.2-7.4 cases per million (2). As a foodborne pathogen, it has emerged as a significant public health problem and has caused several epidemics in the United States and Europe.…”

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“…L. monocytogenes is the third most frequent pathogen of bacterial meningitis in the adult population, following Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis, due to the vaccine-related decline in Haemophilus influenza type b meningitis (3). The case-fatality rate can be as high as 90% if left untreated, and it may be 27-30% among those receiving therapy (2). Common complications include fever, an altered mental status, headache, gastrointestinal symptoms, focal neurological findings, seizures, and photophobia (4).…”

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A Delayed Cerebral Vasospasm with Infarction Is Secondary to <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> Meningitis: MRI and MRA Are Diagnostically Useful

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Among patients with bacterial meningitis, a cerebral vasospasm typically occurs during the acute phase. We experienced a case of delayed cerebral vasospasm with infarction that was secondary to Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. An 82-year-old woman with Listeria monocytogenes meningitis, whose symptoms had been improving after the initiation of antibacterial therapy, fell into a coma on day 15 and developed generalized seizure. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and MR angiography (MRA) indicated a cerebral vasospasm with multiple infarctions. The risk of vascular complications following acute bacterial meningitis requires close follow-up to identify neurological changes and a low threshold for vascular evaluation. In such cases, MRI and MRA have diagnostic utility.

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“…Systemic complications are sepsis and rarely described focal perimyocarditis showed remission after 10 days. One year later, clinical infections [2]. We describe a patient who developed polyradiculitis, examination (except for the preexisting left L5 lesion) and CSF were perimyocarditis, and nephrotic syndrome concomitantly with L. mononormal.…”

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“…Kidney biopsy showed mild focal and segmental glomerulo- Radionuclide imaging in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal infection has been previously reviewed [1]. Diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus tropical pyomyositis using bone scan and gallium scintigraphy has been reported [2,3]. We describe a case that demonstrates the utility of technetium-99m-labeled WBC (Tc99m WBC) scan in the management and treatment of group A streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis with polymyositis.…”

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Polyradiculitis, Perimyocarditis, and Nephrotic Syndrome: Unusual Manifestations of Infection Due to Listeria monocytogenes

Liebetrau

Danek

et al. 1999

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infectious polyradiculitis, which, to our knowledge, has not yet been While receiving intravenous antibiotic therapy (ampicillin, 2 g six reported in association with L. monocytogenes infection, best explains times daily, and gentamicin, 240 mg/day), the patient developed distal our findings. flaccid peripheral pareses within the first 4 days. Foot flexion andThe patient developed a nephrotic syndrome with hypoalbumiextension were not possible on the left and were impaired on the right. nemia, pleural effusions, and proteinuria, which resolved with Arm muscle weakness was moderate on the left and severe on the symptomatic treatment. Infection of the pleural cavity with L. moright. Deep tendon reflexes had diminished, and the ankle reflexes were nocytogenes [6,7] is unlikely because of regressive inflammatory absent. The patient complained of tingling in the hands and feet, and parameters at the time of onset. Therefore, parainfectious etiology vibratory sensation was diminished distally (3/8). Cranial and spinal of nephrotic syndrome was assumed, although, to our knowledge, MRIs were normal. Somatosensory evoked responses showed no pean association with L. monocytogenes infection has not yet been ripheral waves. Brainstem auditory evoked responses were normal.described. Infectious pericarditis and myocarditis due to L. monoNerve conduction studies revealed absent (left median, right ulnar, and cytogenes have been reported as serious complications [8, 9]. In right peroneal nerves) or delayed (left tibial nerve) F-wave responses the patient we described, perimyocarditis resolved rapidly. Thus, consistent with polyradiculitis. Motor nerve conduction velocities were a parainfectious etiology appears to be possible. No underlying normal or slightly reduced; distal motor latency was delayed in one autoimmune disease was found. Lymphoma or hypergammaglonerve. Compound muscle action potentials were slightly reduced in bulinemia due to myeloma or Waldenström's macroglobulinemia amplitude. Sensory nerve action potentials were diminished or missing.are unlikely causes, because organ complications remitted with Needle electromyography showed no denervation signs.antibiotic treatment. After 3 days, the patient developed respiratory impairment due toIn conclusion, in our immunocompetent patient with L. monocymuscle weakness (vital capacity, 1.4 L) and bilateral pleural effusions.togenes infection, the unusual manifestations of polyradiculitis, Blood tests revealed hypoalbuminemia (albumin level, 23 g/L) and nephrotic syndrome, and perimyocarditis took a benign course and nonselective proteinuria (protein excretion rate, 10 g/day), which sugshould be considered as possible complications in the management gested a nephrotic syndrome. The serum urea level was slightly eleof patients with L. monocytogenes infection. vated, whereas the creatinine level and creatinine clearance remained normal. Kidney biopsy showed mild focal and segmental glomerulo- 5. Bolton CF. Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: neu-

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Listeria meningitis in adults

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Community-Acquired Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis in Adults

Community-Acquired Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis in Adults

A Delayed Cerebral Vasospasm with Infarction Is Secondary to <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> Meningitis: MRI and MRA Are Diagnostically Useful

Polyradiculitis, Perimyocarditis, and Nephrotic Syndrome: Unusual Manifestations of Infection Due to Listeria monocytogenes

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