Listeriosis in the far South of Brazil: neglected infection?

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Dulcinea Blum-Menezes, Ivania Deliberalli, Najara Carneiro Bittencourt, Carlus Augustu Tavares do Couto, Liana Nunes Barbosa, Alessandro Marques dos Santos, Gabriel Godinho Pinto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2013
• Subjects: Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriosis; Miscarriage; Brazil; South America; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0005-2013; https://doaj.org/article/0f528895df21470898917fb3795722d5

Listeriosis is an under-diagnosed and under-reported infection; however, listeriosis is not a compulsorily notifiable disease in Brazil. We provide an overview of the rates of listeriosis in the United States of America (USA), Europe, Latin America, and Brazil during the past decade. We also report a case of miscarriage caused by listeriosis in which there was no suspicion of this infection. This overview and the case we report serve as reminders of the often-neglected threat of listeriosis and its potential to cause miscarriage while highlighting the necessity of recognizing listeriosis as a compulsorily notifiable disease in Brazil.