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Assessing Bacterial Invasion of Cardiac Cells in Culture and Heart Colonization in Infected Mice Using Listeria monocytogenes
Published on: May 27, 2015
[Ruptured mesenteric aneurysm from Listeria monocytogenes]
P Sockeel1, C Bredin, L Allanic
1Service de Chirurgie Digestive, HIA Legouest, 27, avenue des Plantieres, BP 10, 57998 Metz-Armées, France. phsockeel@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Infections due to Listeria monocytogenes usually occur in pregnant women, in elderly or immunocompromised patients. We report the case of an immunosuppressed woman who had been hospitalized for a meningoencephalitis due to L. monocytogenes. She was operated on for an abdominal hemorrhagic shock due to a ruptured mycotic aneurysm of the inferior mesenteric artery. Arterial aneurysms due to this germ are rare and occur on large arteries. Only 17 cases have been previously described in the literature and just one concerning a mesenteric artery.
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