Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2010)

Human Listeriosis Caused by Listeria ivanovii

  • Christelle Guillet,
  • Olivier Join-Lambert,
  • Alban Le Monnier,
  • Alexandre Leclercq,
  • Frédéric Mechaï,
  • Marie-France Mamzer-Bruneel,
  • Magdalena K. Bielecka,
  • Mariela Scortti,
  • Olivier Disson,
  • Patrick Berche,
  • José Vazquez-Boland,
  • Olivier Lortholary,
  • Marc Lecuit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1601.091155
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 136 – 138

Abstract

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Two species of Listeria are pathogenic; L. monocytogenes infects humans and animals, and L. ivanovii has been considered to infect ruminants only. We report L. ivanovii–associated gastroenteritis and bacteremia in a man. This isolate was indistinguishable from prototypic ruminant strains. L. ivanovii is thus an enteric opportunistic human pathogen.

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