Abstract
LISTERIOSIS is a sporadic infectious disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes, a gram-positive motile bacillus, occurring naturally in rodents and ruminants.1 , 2 In human beings it has caused a severe form of meningitis and a syndrome similar to infectious mononucleosis.2 3 4 In the preantibiotic period, the meningitic form had a mortality of 68 per cent.2 Fortunately, in more recent years, the organism has been found to be sensitive to one or more of the commonly used antibiotics.5 6 7 In the case reported below, listeriosis was successfully treated with chloramphenicol and chlortetracycline, and the patient presented a clinical, hematologic and serologic picture like that of . . .
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