Keywords
Evan’s Syndrome
Listeria monocitogenes
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Abstract
Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular bacterium that has a predilection for causing central nervous system infections in humans. Whose predominant risk population is infants, the elderly and in immunosuppressed states. The main clinical syndromes caused by Listeria monocytogenes include febrile gastroenteritis, perinatal infection, and systemic infections marked by central nervous system infections with or without bacteremia. We present the case of a 66-year-old male patient with Evans syndrome undergoing immunosuppressive treatment who went to the emergency service of the San Carlos Hospital on August 27, 2019, for an acute picture of fever, headache, and attack on the general condition in whom Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and bacterial meningitis are documented, leading to cefotaxime empirically. The molecular panel and blood cultures were positive for Listeria monocytogenes. The patient received 3 weeks of antibiotic therapy with ampicillin with excellent clinical evolution and without neurological sequelaeListeria monocitogenes
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