Ongoing outbreak of invasive listeriosis due to serotype 1/2a Listeria monocytogenes, Ancona province, Italy, January 2015 to February 2016

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Correspondence: Bruna Facinelli (b.facinelli@univpm.it) Citation style for this article: Marini E, Magi G, Vincenzi C, Manso E, Facinelli B. Ongoing outbreak of invasive listeriosis due to serotype 1/2a Listeria monocytogenes,

Inhibition ofListeria monocytogenesby a formulation of selected dairy starter cultures and probiotics in anin vitromodel

“…Listeria monocytogenes is widely distributed in the environment and is frequently found in food. The incidence of listeriosis has been rising since the year 2000 in Europe (Marini et al 2016). Due to the clinical severity of the illness, listeriosis is a major public health concern.…”

“…In Italy in 2016, an outbreak of invasive listeriosis was associated with the consumption of head cheese (Marini et al 2016). In the United Arab Emirates, no cases of listeriosis were reported in 2002 (Berger 2017).…”

A case of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) revealed an outbreak of Shiga toxin-2-producing Escherichia coli O26:H11 infection in a nursery, with long-lasting shedders and person-to-person transmission, Italy 2015

“…monofasica in Abruzzo (Cito et al, 2016). Nel 2015, in occasione del grave focolaio epidemico di Listeriosi nella regione Marche (Marini et al, 2016).…”

Prevalence, Pathogenicity, Virulence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Phylogenetic Analysis of Biofilm-Producing Listeria monocytogenes Isolated from Different Ecological Niches in Egypt: Food, Humans, Animals, and Environment

“…Although the genus Listeria includes many species, due to the pathogenicity of L. monocytogenes in human hosts and its ability to flourish in hostile environments, earlier research implicating genome sequencing were to a great extent concentrated on L. monocytogenes [7][8][9][10][11]. L. monocytogenes is implicated with human listeriosis and in the present decennium, numerous serious outbreaks of foodborne listeriosis have been recorded in different countries and continents [11][12][13][14][15][16], causing serious manifestations in the form of septicemia and meningitis, principally in the immunocompromised and old populaces in addition to pregnant women, who may bring forth stillborn babies or seriously contaminated infants [4,9,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”