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- Title
Systemic Listeria monocytogenes infection in a 2-year-old immunocompetent child.
- Authors
Lobotková, D.; Dická, E.; Rolný, V.; Stankovič, I.; Čižnár, P.
- Abstract
Central nervous system infection and sepsis are the most frequently observed clinical presentations of listeriosis infection; however, they are rare in immunocompetent children beyond the neonatal period. In the presented case, we described gastrointestinal involvement, subacute meningitis, sinusitis and sepsis in a two-year-old previously healthy child with acute infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes. We suggest that the infection was probably enhanced by an inappropriate corticosteroid treatment at the onset of the disease, while immunological testing did not confirm the primary deficiency of cellular immunity.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of bacterial diseases; AMPICILLIN; ADRENOCORTICAL hormones; BACTERIAL diseases; IMMUNE response; IMMUNOCOMPETENT cells; LISTERIOSIS; SEPSIS; BACTERIAL meningitis; CHILDREN; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Infection, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 6, p1055
- ISSN
0300-8126
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s15010-014-0655-8