%0 Journal Article
%A Martin Hita, L
%A Casanovas Moreno-Torre, I
%A Molina Esteban, J
%A Foronda García-Hidalgo, C
%A Guillot Suay, V
%A Navarro Mari, J M
%T Listeria monocytogenes, a rare cause of endophthalmitis.
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/15551
%X Listeria monocytogenes is a ubiquitous Gram-positive rodthat is found in food and is responsible for gastrointestinal infections due to the consumption of unpasteurized dairy products or contaminated meat and vegetables. Rarely, it producesinvasive disease that primarily affects immunosuppressed patients, chronic diseases, intravenous drug use, malignancies,the elderly and pregnant women; mainly causing bacteremiaand meningitis [1-3]. L. monocytogenes is a rare and seriouscause of endophthalmitis, which can lead to vision loss [3]. Thefirst case reported in the literature of endophthalmitis due toL. monocytogenes was in 1967 by Goodner and Okumoto [4],since then have been published 25 cases. Endophthalmitis ofendogenous cause, less frequent than the exogenous one, isdue to blood-borne seeding from a place far from the eye andis related to the presence of predisposing factors, such as cirrhosis or haemochromatosis [5].
%K Listeria monocytogenes
%K cirrhotic patient
%K endophthalmitis
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