Listeria meningitis: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on listeria meningitis: clinical features: Pathology Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive facultative anaerobe It is the third commonest cause of bacterial meningitis Risk factors: immunosuppression Risk factors: demographic Clinical features Poor prognostic…

Pathology

  • Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive facultative anaerobe
  • It is the third commonest cause of bacterial meningitis

Risk factors: immunosuppression

Risk factors: demographic

Clinical features

Poor prognostic factors

Complications

References

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