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Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Listeria Monocytogenies in Humans

In the 25 years or so since Murray first cultured this bacterium, it didn't really make itself known as a pathogen of public health importance. There were a handful of human cases reported in Denmark in 1929 and at the time it was thought to be related to infectious mononucleosis. HPR Celiger at the University of Bonn who wrote the textbook on listeria, like literally, and I think there's a species named after this researcher as well. When Celiger isolated the bacteria from lesions in newborns who had infections that resembled some that had just been written about from Germany he recognized it as listeria monocytogenies.

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