Listeria Monocytogenes

Listeria monocytogenes is a free living environmental microbe. It can oscillate between being something hanging out in the soil and replicating just fine. We get exposed to Listeria through our food, but it's actually quite different from most any other food-borne illness that we've talked about. The symptoms either go incredibly severe, disseminated infection; or mild,. if any, symptoms and we might never know that you had this as an illness. If you have a fully competent immune system, fully competent gut lining, no major risk factors, you may or may not get exposed to enough bacteria for gastroenteritis.

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