Spontaneous Peritonitis of Cirrhosis Due to Listeria monocytogenes

Rheingold, Owen J.

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-87-4-455_2

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“…RHEINGOLD et al were the first to describe spontaneous bacterial peritonitis due to Listeria monocytogenes in cirrhotic patients in 1977 11 . More than 40 cases were reported later and most of them occurred in Spain 2,5 .…”

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Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis in cirrhotic patients: first description in Brazil

Toyoshima¹,

Apanavicius²,

Soeiro³

et al. 2006

Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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SUMMARYTwo cases of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) caused by Listeria monocytogenes in cirrhotic patients are reported. In one of the cases, the microorganism was isolated from pleural effusion and ascites. SBP is a serious and common complication of patients with ascites caused by hepatic cirrhosis and the culture of the ascitic fluid is an important tool for the diagnosis and for the more appropriate treatment. Although a third generation cephalosporin has usually been employed for empiric treatment of SBP, it does not provide adequate coverage against Listeria spp. In such cases the use of ampicillin (with or without sulbactam) or sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim is recommended. The last one is used for secondary prophylaxis, instead of norfloxacin.To summarize, Listeria monocytogenes infection is a rare cause of SBP, whose treatment should be specific for the bacteria.

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Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis in cirrhotic patients: first description in Brazil

Toyoshima¹,

Apanavicius²,

Soeiro³

et al. 2006

Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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“…It is hypothesized that the organism gains access to the systemic circulation after transmigration through the intestinal wall [11]. It has been shown recently that listeria can initially enter the cell by a mechanism that may involve the binding of a bacterial protein to E-cadherin on the host cell.…”

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Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis in a patient on peritoneal dialysis: a case report and review of the literature

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Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is one of the rare microorganisms causing peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. We report a sporadic case of peritonitis caused by LM in a young female PD patient with lupus receiving corticosteroid therapy, who presented with abdominal pain, cloudy PD effluent, nausea, and conjunctivitis. The effluent showed a high PD effluent white cell count and monocytosis, and gram staining showed gram-positive bacilli in single or short chains and PD effluent culture grew LM. She was treated successfully with beta lactum antibiotics. LM peritonitis should be suspected if a patient presents with gram-positive bacilli and monocytosis in dialysis effluent.

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“…Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are less commonly associated with this syndrome (4,22), and the finding of anaerobic bacteria as etiological agents is unusual (13,18,20,22). Various individual case reports in the literature implicate several other organisms as being associated with this disease, including Neisseria meningitidis (1,2), Listeria monocytogenes (17), and Pasteurella multocida (4,7,12). This report describes a patient with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis caused by an as yet unnamed bacterium, Center for Disease Control group IIk-2.…”

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