Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis

Introduction. Endocarditis is a rare complication of bacteraemia due to Listeria monocytogenes and is characterized by a high fatality rate (37–50 %). Recurrent infection by Listeria monocytogenes occurs even more rarely. Case presentation. We report a case of recurrent Listeria monocytogenes infect...

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Autores principales: Ciceri, Giulia, Gori, Maria, Bianchi, Silvia, Corrado, Giovanni, Panisi, Paolo, Papa, Angela, Tanzi, Elisabetta, Pontello, Mirella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005115
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author Ciceri, Giulia
Gori, Maria
Bianchi, Silvia
Corrado, Giovanni
Panisi, Paolo
Papa, Angela
Tanzi, Elisabetta
Pontello, Mirella
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description Introduction. Endocarditis is a rare complication of bacteraemia due to Listeria monocytogenes and is characterized by a high fatality rate (37–50 %). Recurrent infection by Listeria monocytogenes occurs even more rarely. Case presentation. We report a case of recurrent Listeria monocytogenes infection that resulted in severe endocarditis in a 66-year-old patient with an aortic valve prosthesis. Relapse was confirmed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Conclusion. Our case highlights that the molecular subtyping approach is an important tool for the detection of microbial reinfections and for the support of clinical diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-56430032017-11-07 Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis Ciceri, Giulia Gori, Maria Bianchi, Silvia Corrado, Giovanni Panisi, Paolo Papa, Angela Tanzi, Elisabetta Pontello, Mirella JMM Case Rep Case Report Introduction. Endocarditis is a rare complication of bacteraemia due to Listeria monocytogenes and is characterized by a high fatality rate (37–50 %). Recurrent infection by Listeria monocytogenes occurs even more rarely. Case presentation. We report a case of recurrent Listeria monocytogenes infection that resulted in severe endocarditis in a 66-year-old patient with an aortic valve prosthesis. Relapse was confirmed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Conclusion. Our case highlights that the molecular subtyping approach is an important tool for the detection of microbial reinfections and for the support of clinical diagnosis. Microbiology Society 2017-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5643003/ /pubmed/29114396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005115 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Corrado, Giovanni
Panisi, Paolo
Papa, Angela
Tanzi, Elisabetta
Pontello, Mirella
Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title_full Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title_fullStr Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title_short Molecular evidence of Listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
title_sort molecular evidence of listeria monocytogenes infection relapse in a severe case of endocarditis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005115
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