We report a case of recurrent listeriosis for which molecular subtyping by automated ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed either relapse of infection or reinfection due to a common source almost 9 months after initial infection due to a unique Listeria monocytogenes strain in a patient with colorectal cancer. This case report illustrates the potential use of molecular subtyping to further understand the pathogenesis and epidemiology of listeriosis and the potential for relapse of Listeria infections in humans.

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Th e art of Paul Sérusier and that of his artist friends has been interpreted in this essay as having its roots in the Th eosophical themes prevalent in an interdependent circle of authors and spiritualists in 18th and 19th century France. Th ese mystical thinkers were less concerned with the writings and indomitable presence of the acknowledged leading light of Th eosophy Helena Petrovna Blavatsky than with a more specifically French national yearning for its imagined Celtic and traditionally Roman Catholic roots, smothered, in their view, by secular and materialistic modern sensibilities. Th eosophy, "the essence of all doctrines, the inmost truth of all religions" as defined by the doyenne of French Th eosophy Maria, Countess of Caithness and Duchess of Medina-Pomar, led Sérusier to seek elemental truth for his art in a remote inland village in Brittany where he painted for many years, to a Benedictine monastery on the Danube where formerly Nazarene artist/monks had created a system of drawing and painting believed to be based on the original design of the universe, and to the widely read text Les Grands Initiés (1899) by the mystic writer, Edouard Schuré. Sérusier's broad-reaching search for the Th eosophical roots of art was one aspect of the fin de siècle malaise that led the arts out of the world into dreams. KeywordsSérusier, Th eosophy, Blavatsky, Catholicism, Schuré, fin de siècle T he 1986 catalog for the exhibition Th e Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum defines Th eosophy as follows:Th eosophy (a seventeenth-century word coined from Greek roots meaning "God wisdom" or "divine wisdom") denotes metaphysical teachings and systems, derived from personal experience and esoteric * ) I would like to thank my friend and former colleague, Robert Ackerman, for his inspired and thoughtful editorial review of this text.

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