Listeria monocytogenes is the bacterium that causes the infection listeriosis. It is a facultative anaerobic bacterium, capable of surviving in the presence or absence of oxygen. It can grow and reproduce inside the host`s cells and is one of the most virulent food-borne pathogens, with 20 to 30 percent of clinical infections resulting in death. ....
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(from the article `listeriosis`) disease caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium has been isolated from humans and from more than 50 species of wild and ...
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Rod shaped gram-positive bacterium. It is wide spread and can grow over an unusually wide range of temperatures 0-45ÂC). It is normally saprophytic but is an opportunistic parasite, in that it can survive within cells (particularly leucocytes) and can be transmitted trans placentally. It has caused a number of serious outbreaks of food poisoning...
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Rod-shaped Gram positive bacterium. Wide-spread and can grow over an unusually wide range of temperatures (0-45°C). Normally saprophytic but is an opportunistic parasite, in that it can survive within cells (particularly leucocytes) and can be transmitted transplacentally. It has caused a number of serious outbreaks of food poisoning with a high mortality rate in recent years.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a bacterial species causing meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, and local purulent lesions; often fatal; found in healthy ferrets, insects, and the feces of chinchillas, ruminants, and humans, as well as in sewage, decaying vegetation, silage, soil, and fertilizer. Sometimes involved i...
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L. monocytogenes noun the type species of the genus Listeria; can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion, abscesses, listeriosis
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