Human listeriosis

MM Koopmans, MC Brouwer… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen that can cause
severe invasive infections upon ingestion with contaminated food. Clinically, listerial …

Listeria monocytogenes: towards a complete picture of its physiology and pathogenesis

L Radoshevich, P Cossart - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen responsible for a disease called
listeriosis, which is potentially lethal in immunocompromised individuals. This bacterium, first …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology

JJ Quereda, A Morón-García, C Palacios-Gorba… - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Listeria monocytogenes is a saprophytic gram-positive bacterium, and an opportunistic
foodborne pathogen that can produce listeriosis in humans and animals. It has evolved an …

[HTML][HTML] The European Union summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses, zoonotic agents and food‐borne outbreaks in 2016

EFS Authority - EFSA journal, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This report of the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control presents the results of the zoonoses monitoring activities carried out …

Progress and challenges in bacterial meningitis: a review

R Hasbun - Jama, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Bacterial meningitis is a worldwide health problem, with incidence rates ranging
from approximately 0.9 per 100 000 individuals per year in high-income countries to 80 per …

Outbreak of listeriosis in South Africa associated with processed meat

J Thomas, N Govender, KM McCarthy… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Background An outbreak of listeriosis was identified in South Africa in 2017. The source was
unknown. Methods We conducted epidemiologic, trace-back, and environmental …

Making sense of the biodiversity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

O Disson, A Moura, M Lecuit - Trends in microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen responsible for listeriosis, an infection that
can manifest in humans as bacteremia, meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised …

The cGAS-STING pathway in bacterial infection and bacterial immunity

N Liu, X Pang, H Zhang, P Ji - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (GMP)-adenosine monophosphate (AMP)(cGAMP)
synthase (cGAS), along with the adaptor stimulator of interferon genes (STING), are crucial …

Hypervirulent Listeria monocytogenes clones' adaption to mammalian gut accounts for their association with dairy products

MM Maury, H Bracq-Dieye, L Huang, G Vales… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a major human and animal foodborne pathogen. Here we
show that hypervirulent Lm clones, particularly CC1, are strongly associated with dairy …

Potential antimicrobial activities of probiotics and their derivatives against Listeria monocytogenes in food field: A review

M Wu, Q Dong, Y Ma, S Yang, MZ Aslam, Y Liu… - Food Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Listeria monocytogenes is an important food-borne pathogen, which could be detected in
food, environmental and clinical samples. It contaminates food in any of the stages during …