A Case of Primary Cutaneous Listeriosis

Abstract

SINCE the first recognition of Listeria monocytogenes by Murray, Webb and Swan1 in 1926 this organism has been isolated from patients suffering from a limited number of syndromes. Harvey and Faber2 and Finegold et al.3 stated that it had been found in only two conditions in man: encephalomeningitis and infectious mononucleosis. However, Murray,4 in a review of listeriosis, said that in the human cases reported up to that time, the syndromes were those of meningitis or encephalitis in 33 per cent, "granulomatosis" in 29 per cent, septicemia in 21 per cent, mononucleosis in 8 per cent and conjunctivitis in 6 . . .