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List the risk factors for severe listerial illness.
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neonates, pregnant women, elderly persons, and all immunosuppressed patients.
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Describe Listeria Monocytogenes bacterium
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small, facultatively anaerobic, gram-positive, motile bacillus
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How is Listeria transmitted?
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In animals, fecal-oral Most human cases food-borne.
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Incubation period for Listeria
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estimated to be 3 weeks
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What is the case-fatality rate for systemic infection?
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in most industrialized countries, about 20% to 30%.
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