Abstract | INTRODUCTION: AIM: To retrospectively review the clinical course and outcome of five cases of listeriosis in four organ recipients and one stem-cell recipient during a seven-year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS: RESULTS: The first case affected a 35-year-old woman who received an allogenic bone marrow transplant for advanced breast cancer. Cases two and three related to two male heart recipients. Cases four and five were diagnosed in one male and one female renal recipient. Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from blood in two cases and from cerebrospinal fluid in three. Treatment consisted of ampicillin in all cases with the addition of tobramycin (1), TMPS (1), meropenem (2) or imipenem/cilastatin (1). The deaths of two patients were directly related to L. monocytogenes. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Silke Wiesmayr, Walther Tabarelli, Ingrid Stelzmueller, David Nachbaur, Claudia Boesmueller, Heinz Wykypiel, Bettina Pfausler, Raimund Margreiter, Franz Allerberger, Hugo Bonatti |
Journal | Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
(Wien Klin Wochenschr)
Vol. 117
Issue 5-6
Pg. 229-33
(Mar 2005)
ISSN: 0043-5325 [Print] Austria |
PMID | 15875764
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Austria
(epidemiology)
- Female
- Humans
- Incidence
- Male
- Meningitis, Listeria
(diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology)
- Middle Aged
- Retrospective Studies
- Risk Assessment
(methods)
- Risk Factors
- Stem Cell Transplantation
(adverse effects)
- Transplants
(adverse effects)
- Treatment Outcome
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