Listerellosis

Abstract

LISTERELLOSIS is a sporadic, infectious disease occurring naturally in man1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 and in animals,23 including cattle, sheep, goats, swine, foxes, chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils and rats.24 The disease is caused by Listerella monocytogenes (Bergey) and is characterized by symptoms principally referable to the central nervous system.The causative organism, List, monocytogenes, was first submitted as a new species (Bacterium monocytogenes) in 1924 by Murray, Webb and Swann,25 who isolated it from an epizootic affecting their laboratory rabbits and guinea pigs. In 1929, Nyfeldt21 recovered the organism from the blood stream of a seventeen-year-old boy6 with infectious mononucleosis, . . .