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Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Listeria

Listeria has become a model organism of infection and invasion because it is so good at invading across our normal protective barriers. This, this bacterium has a lot of tricks up its sleeve. It's crossing the placenta. It’s crossing blood brain barrier. So we can also see potentially infection in specific organs, but this tends to be very, very rare compared to the other manifestations of listeriosis. The remaining 10% of cases are often localized infections. You can actually see skin infections, especially maybe among people who get exposed from livestock. Or rarely other specific organ infections, like an endocarditis infection of the heart or a liver infection or infection of the wall

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