Listerellosis

28 June 1945

journal article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 232 (26) , 755-759
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194506282322602

Abstract

LISTERELLOSIS is a sporadic, infectious disease occurring naturally in man¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³ ¹⁴ ¹⁵ ¹⁶ ¹⁷ ¹⁸ ¹⁹ ²⁰ ²¹ ²² and in animals,²³ including cattle, sheep, goats, swine, foxes, chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils and rats.²⁴ The disease is caused by Listerella monocytogenes (Bergey) and is characterized by symptoms principally referable to the central nervous system.The causative organism, List, monocytogenes, was first submitted as a new species (Bacterium monocytogenes) in 1924 by Murray, Webb and Swann,²⁵ who isolated it from an epizootic affecting their laboratory rabbits and guinea pigs. In 1929, Nyfeldt²¹ recovered the organism from the blood stream of a seventeen-year-old boy⁶ with infectious mononucleosis, . . .

Keywords

LISTERELLOSIS

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