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Thought of creating a🧵on #Listeria infection as more people are curious to know about it.
Firstly it's very uncommon in #SriLanka but recently a few deadly cases were reported of persons who visited Adam's Peak (#Siripada) during the season.
So here goes..
#MedTwitter #lka
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#Listeria infection is a foodborne bacterial illness that can be very serious for #pregnant women, people older than 65yrs and people with weakened #immune systems. Healthy people rarely become ill from listeria infection but the disease can be fatal to unborn babies,newborns
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🟢Symptoms
Might begin a few days after you've eaten contaminated food, but it can take 30 days or more before the first signs and symptoms of infection begin.
❗️Fever
❗️Chills
❗️Muscle aches
❗️Nausea
❗️Diarrhea

If infection spread to nervous system:
3/n
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Con este asunto de lavar o no lavar los hongos 🧼🫧🍄

Me puse a investigar qué dice la ciencia...🧐

Va 🧵
2. Profesionales en la cocina (chefs) recomiendan NO lavar los hongos que vamos a consumir.
¿Por qué?
🍽️porque al lavarlos, ya sea con agua, jabón o desinfectantes, los hongos pierden sus características organolépticas, es decir, el sabor, olor, color y textura.
O sea saben feo
3. En diversas páginas de cocina se coincide con la información: No lavar los hongos.

Las y los hongueros, es decir, las personas que reconocen, recolectan, consumen y ponen a la venta hongos silvestres comestibles recomiendan no lavar los hongos.

¿Qué recomiendan entonces?
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Weekend Digest

Name the Pathogen

Five Clues
1. Tumbling #GPB
2. #Pregnancy
3. #Delicatessen
4. #Meningoencephalitis
5. #Ampicillin + #gentamicin Image
#Listeria monocytogenes

High-risk foods: unpasteurized cheeses, hot dogs and deli/lunchmeats.

High-risk groups:
- pregnant women
- newborns
- older adults
- people with weakened immune systems
#Listeriosis in pregnancy
1. Febrile gastroenteritis
2. Bacteremia
3. CNS infection uncommon

Most common in 3rd trimester

Listeria can cross placental barrier —> fetal death, premature birth, infected newborn

Granulomatosis infantiseptica

eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…
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Weekend Digest

Name the Pathogen

Five Clues
1. Gram-positive bacillus with tumbling motility
2. Food safety
3. Age, pregnancy and steroids
4. Rhombencephalitis
5. Ampicillin+Gentamicin Image
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#Listeria monocytogenes

Soil
Decaying plant matter

Processed/unprocessed food (deli meats, hotdog, soft cheese, pate, fruits, greens/salads)

Oral route —> intestinal mucosa penetration —> systemic infection
3/
#Listeria monocytogenes and food safety!

Listeria survives in refrigeration temperature

Sporadic isolated cases
Occasional outbreaks due to food contamination (see link for recent outbreak)

fda.gov/food/outbreaks…
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#idboardreview 65 F w/ ataxic gait, R nystagmus, dysmetria. MRI T2 hyperintensity in cerebellum extension to brainstem/internal capsule bilaterally. CSF 200wbc 95%PMN, gluc65, protein160. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #idtwitter ImageImage
Patient likes to eat Brie
#Rhombencephalitis is encephalitis that affects hindbrain.
Non-infectious ddx MS, Behçet, paraneoplastic syndromes

infectious ddx L. monocytogenes, EBV, MTB, Streptococcus pneumoniae
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#idboardreview 55 M 🇪🇸 hepatic cancer w/lethargy, diarrhea, malignant ascites s/p peritoneal cath placement 1wk ago now w/ fever, confusion. +SBP. Csf neutrophilic predominant, normal glucose. Csf/BC possible diptheroids. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd Image
#Listeria aerobic facultative anaerobic beta-hemolytic, non–spore-forming, short gram-positive rod tumbling motility. single or in short chains. On Gram stain, Listeria may resemble Pneumococci (diplococci), Enterococci, Diphtheroids or be gram variable/confused w/ Haemophilus sp
when a positive blood or CSF culture is preliminarily identified as Diphtheroids, the clinician should consider the possibility that the isolate represents #Listeria
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#idboardreview 30 M Crohn’s on methotrexate, adalimumab & recent prednisone/natalizumab presents w/2d F, abd pain, non-bloody diarrhea. Ate cantaloupe from farmer’s market. No travel/animals. Normal labs. +BC. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd Image
cdc.gov/listeria/outbr… Febrile gastroenteritis and bacteremia in an immunocompromised host due to #Listeria monocytogenes post cantaloupe consumption
+BC: When considering bacterial infections that cause GI dz: think about foodborne illnesses mediated by toxins such as preformed Bacillus cereus toxin, staphylococcal toxins, or even toxins transmitted by fish or shellfish
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Here it is!

#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157

It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology Inktober2020 E. coli O157 c...
#Inktober2020 day 2 in my #PathogenPortraits series. 'The Clap' (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) b/c who doesn't 💚 green purulent discharge?

It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…

#sciart #microbiology Image
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very 💛golden💛 #MRSA.

Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.

More info at mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology Methicillin resistant staph...
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¿Cómo habría sido una mejor gestión en la alerta por #listeria ?
Empresa:
- pides la lista de Clientes
- pides la lista de productos
(Esto ocurre en el minuto 2 de una auditoría normal de seguridad alimentaria así que, si han pasado alguna... que ahora dudo, lo tendrán a mano)
⬇️
- pides sus analíticas de producto terminado. Las que tengan.
- solícitas muestras de los productos que tengan (nosotros hemos solicitado a laboratorio externo y hemos tenido comunicado en 3 días. Todo bien)
- La empresa informa a TODOS sus clientes de TODAS LAS MARCAS⬇️
- en tres días te ha dado tiempo a buscar la trazabilidad de lotes (en las auditorías que pasamos, tenemos 3-4 horas MÁXIMO)
- todos tus distribuidores hacen lo propio con sus lotes, e informan a sus clientes.
- retiras (si no lo haces tú, la junta) los lotes de otras marcas ⬇️
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Dada la actualidad y la alarma que está generando, vamos con un hilo sobre la bacteria de moda, Listeria Monocytogenes. #Listeria #LaMechá
Comenzamos con una curiosidad. Y es que, como algunos ya sospecharéis, las bacterias del género Listeria tienen este nombre en honor a Joseph Lister, considerado uno de los padres de la microbiología y precursor de la antisepsia. ¿Sabéis qué otra cosa le debe su nombre?
El descubrimiento de estas bacterias se remonta a 1926, 14 años tras la muerte de Lister, tras ser aisladas por diversos grupos de investigadores en varias especies de roedores que presentaban monocitosis (de ahí el apellido de la bacteria que nos ocupa).
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