Sausage-related Listeria monocytogenes infection
Frydland, M.; Bundgaard, H.; Moser, C.; Dahlstrøm, C.G.; Ihlemann, N.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 176(48)
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1603-6824 PMID: 25430580 Document Number: 673375
Infection with Listeria monocytogenes is rare and mainly seen in immunosuppressed patients. Infection with L. monocytogenes has a mortality rate of 30%. We present a case report of L. monocytogenes bacteraemia and endocarditis in a 70-year-old man with several co-morbidities and following four major surgical procedures. This illustrates the findings and characteristics in one of the 16 patients who died in 2013 and 2014 this summer due to sausage-related L. monocytogenes infection.