Maternal and Neonatal Listeriosis: Report of Case and Brief Review of Literature of Listeriosis in Man

Two cases of perinatal listeriosis.

“…Only 14 cases of neonatal listeriosis have been described in the UK (Edmunds et al, 1957;Barrow and Pugh, 1958;Moore and Whitmore, 1960;Harding and Brunton, 1962;Barber and Okubadejo, 1965;Coleman, 1965;Jellard and Churcher, 1965;Beck et al, 1966;Scott and Henderson, 1968;Kite, 1975), and one other case is known from personal communication (D. Robson and R. N. Peel, 1976). Between 1967 and 1972, 47 cases of listerial infection in children under one year were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service of which 14 were fatal, but the data do not say how many were neonates.…”

Bacterial infection in the fetus and newborn.

“…There is evidence that their widespread use may have brought about changes in bacterial flora and in the host himself, which have increased the opportunities for invasion by usually benign organisms, the majority of them Gramnegative (Finland, Jones, and Barnes, 1959). It seems that the restriction of their use whenever possible may reduce the likelihood of resistant strains appearing (Barber et al, 1960;Bulger and Sherris, 1968).…”

Correspondence

“…In 1968, six cases diagnosed over a 2-year period were reported from a general hospital. Two of these patients were on steroids, one had a carcinoma, one sarcoidosis, one diabetes and the sixth was hypertensive (Ford, Herzberg & Ford, 1968).…”