Two Cases of Listerial Meningitis in Infants

Two cases of perinatal listeriosis.

“…Only 14 cases of neonatal listeriosis have been described in the UK (Edmunds et al, 1957;Barrow and Pugh, 1958;Moore and Whitmore, 1960;Harding and Brunton, 1962;Barber and Okubadejo, 1965;Coleman, 1965;Jellard and Churcher, 1965;Beck et al, 1966;Scott and Henderson, 1968;Kite, 1975), and one other case is known from personal communication (D. Robson and R. N. Peel, 1976). Between 1967 and 1972, 47 cases of listerial infection in children under one year were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service of which 14 were fatal, but the data do not say how many were neonates.…”

“…A mortality rate of 91 % for babies has been recorded in Canada (Sepp and Roy, 1963). Occasionally the child is several months old when meningitis supervenes (Wright and Macgregor, 1939;Edmunds et al, 1957;Turner et al, 1958).…”

Maternal and Neonatal Listeriosis: Report of Case and Brief Review of Literature of Listeriosis in Man

“…Since 1961 three further cases, all meningitis, have been reported in medical journals (McKinnon and Swithinbank, 1961 ;Harding and Brunton, 1962), bringing the total to 14. In addition the weekly report of the Public Health Laboratory Service has recorded an increasing number of cases of listeriosis since 1961, and in the first six months * Professor Barber, (Edmunds et al, 1957;Barrow and Pugh, 1958 ;Moore and Whitmore, 1960 ;Harding and Brunton, 1962), in only one was there any suggestive evidence that infection was from the mother (Barrow and Pugh, (1958), and this was unproved. The case reported here represents, therefore, the first bacteriologically confirmed infection in both mother and infant recorded in Britain, although even in this case the patient was not British.…”

Listeria monocytogenes endophthalmitis

“…Even though meningitis is the most common form of disease (Barza 1985), there are a few ocular forms described (Anton 1934;Ekelund 1962;Amiel-Tison 1963;Edmunds 1957;Burdin 1965;Pletnewa 1950;Aubertin 1965;Cherednichenko 1962).…”