Listerial Meningitis in Infancy

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Abstract
Three previously un-reported cases of listerial meningitis are described. Symptoms appeared during the second week of life in two and at the age of 3 months in the third. All three infants survived, two apparently well, the other with severe neurological sequelae. Fifty-eight cases of listerial meningitis reported during the neonatal period were analysed regarding the day of onset of the illness. They fell into two groups; those in Group A were ill on the first day of life, while the others (Group B) developed clinical manifestations between the fourth and 28th days. The infants in Group A were thought to have been infected in utero; those in Group B at, or shortly before, birth.

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