TY - JOUR AU - Siegman-Igra, Yardena AU - Levin, Rotem AU - Weinberger, Miriam AU - Golan, Yoav AU - Schwartz, David AU - Samra, Zmira AU - Konigsberger, Hana AU - Yinnon, Amos AU - Rahav, Galia AU - Keller, Nathan AU - Bisharat, Nail AU - Karpuch, Jehuda AU - Finkelstein, Renato AU - Alkan, Michael AU - Landau, Zvi AU - Novikov, Julia AU - Hassin, David AU - Rudnicki, Carlos AU - Kitzes, Ruth AU - Ovadia, Shmouel AU - Shimoni, Zvi AU - Lang, Ruth AU - Shohat, Tamar T1 - Listeria monocytogenes Infection in Israel and Review of Cases Worldwide T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 305 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Listeria monocytogenes, an uncommon foodborne pathogen, is increasingly recognized as a cause of life-threatening disease. A marked increase in reported cases of listeriosis during 1998 motivated a retrospective nationwide survey of the infection in Israel. From 1995 to 1999, 161 cases were identified; 70 (43%) were perinatal infections, with a fetal mortality rate of 45%. Most (74%) of the 91 nonperinatal infections involved immunocompromised patients with malignancies, chronic liver disease, chronic renal failure, or diabetes mellitus. The common clinical syndromes in these patients were primary bacteremia (47%) and meningitis (28%). The crude case-fatality rate in this group was 38%, with a higher death rate in immunocompromised patients. KW - Listeria monocytogenes KW - listeriosis KW - epidemiology KW - neonatal infection KW - foodborne disease KW - immuonocompromised hosts KW - Israel DO - 10.3201/eid0803.010195 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/3/01-0195_article ER - End of Reference