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KMID : 0357919800140020105
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Korean Journal of Pathology
1980 Volume.14 No. 2 p.105 ~ p.111
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Listeriosis : Report of Three Cases and Review of the Infections in Korea
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이희주/Hee Joo Lee
정윤섭/이삼열/최일생/김병수/Yunsop Chong/Samuel Y. Lee/Il Saing Choe/Byung Soo Kim
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Abstract
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Listeria monocytogenes infection, formerly considered a rather rare disease, had been
reported increasingly. The infection occurs mostly in patients with underlying diseases,
Such as tumor, diabetes mellitus, kidney transplantation and alcoholism, and also in
patients with steroides and cytotoxic chemotherapy.
In 1978 and 1979, 3 cases of infections of L. monocytogenes were bacteriologically
diagnosed at Severance hospital, and the following observations were made.
1) The first patient was a 58-year-old male with malignant lymphoma, the 2nd a 66-
year-old female with cervical cancer and the last a 46-year-old female with diabetes
mellitus.
2) L. monocytogenes was isolated from blood specimens in all of the patients. From
the 3rd patient a CSF specimen was also cultured and yielded the organism.
3) All of the isolates showed the typical cultural and biochemical characteristics of L.
monocytogenes and were found to belong to serotype 1b.
4) All of the isolates were susceptible to ampicillin and tetracycline. Erythromycin and
penicillin susceptibilities were variable depending on the isolates.
Increasing incidence of listeriosis is expected in the future due to the ever increasing
number of compromised hosts. It is thought necessary that both clinicians and
laboratorians should be familiar with the bacterium and its infection to be able to make
accurate diagnosis and to provide proper treatment.
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