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Disease Information for Listeria meningitis (Clinical Manifestations)
Listeria Meningitides, Listeria meningitis, Listeria meningitis (disorder), Listeria monocytogenes Meningitides, Listeria monocytogenes Meningitis, Meningitides Listeria, Meningitides Listeria monocytogenes, Meningitis due to listeriosis, Meningitis listeria, MENINGITIS LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES
Inflammation of the meninges caused by LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES infection, usually occuring in individuals under the age of 3 years or over the age of 50 years. It may occur at any age in individuals with IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES. Clinical manifestations include FEVER, altered mentation, HEADACHE, meningeal signs, focal neurologic signs, and SEIZURES. (From Medicine 1998 Sep;77(5):313-36)
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- Merck Manual
- PubMed
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- eMedicine (medscape)
- Harrison's Online
- NEJM (The New England Journal of Medicine)
Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Paroxysmal Shivering
- Rigors/Shaking chills
- Teeth Chattering
- Uncontrollable Shaking
- Neck muscle pains
- Low Blood Pressure
- Signs of Poor Perfusion
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Diaphoresis profuse/active sweating/acute
- Excess Sweating Children
- Sweating Excess Perspiration
- Nausea
- Projectile vomiting
- Vomiting
- Vomiting in infancy
- Absent focal neurologic signs/expected
- Altered mental status Mental status change
- Bilateral abdominal reflex decreased
- Brudzinski's sign positive
- Changing neurologic signs, rapid
- Clonus/bilateral ankle (sustained)
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Confusion/agitation on exam
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Cranial nerve abnormalities/involvement/signs
- Delirium
- Delirium/Agitated delirium
- Difficulty flexing neck
- Dysarthria
- Facial Nerve Palsy/Facial Paralysis
- Facial weakness/droop, unilateral
- Febrile seizure/children
- Fluctuating consciousness
- Focal neurologic deficit
- Fontanelle bulging, infant
- Head retraction/infant
- Headache
- Headache in children
- Headache, severe
- Headache, sudden severe and new type/Thunderclap
- Headache/worsened by movement
- Hemiplegic Gait
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Infant Seizures
- Irritability/short tempered
- Kernigs sign
- Lethargy/torpor
- Meningeal Signs
- Neurological symptoms/signs
- Nystagmus
- Obtunded/poorly responsive status/signs
- Papilledema on exam
- Seizures
- Seizures Newborn
- Slow speech
- Station change adjustment/infant poor
- Stiff neck/Nuchal rigidity
- Stupor/poor reponse to stimulus
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Unconscious/Narcosis status
- Widening skull sutures/infant
- Hallucination/visual
- Neck pain
- Red or inflammed pharynx
- Sore throat in Elderly
- Sore throat/Pharyngitis
- Sore Throat/Throat Pain
- Throat Conditions
- Acute sepsis syndrome
- Acutely ill patient/signs
- Children sicker than adults
- Chills
- Collapse/Prostration
- Debilitated
- Fever
- Fever Febrile Possible
- Fever in elderly
- Fever in Immigrants
- Fever in kids
- Fever in kids Under 3
- Fever, high
- Flu-Like Syndrome
- High body temperature
- Infant peevish/irritable/fretful
- Malaise
- Sudden death of an infant
- Toxic and Febrile Septic
- Blurred Optic Disk Margin
- Diplopia Double vision
- Nerve deafness, recent onset
- Photophobia/Light sensitive
- Visual symptoms
- True Vertigo Sign Confirmed
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Coma with normal Head CT Scan
- SBI/Systemic bacterial infection child
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Fever in Immune Compromised
- Presentation/Fever Immigrant Recent Home country visit
- Presentation/Fever in Cellular Immune Defect
- Presentation/Fever recent Travel Long visit return
- Presentation/Fulminant Sepsis Prostration
- Presentation/Toddler Acute fever Toxic Pallor Lethargic
- AIDS with Altered Mental State
- HIV AIDS with Cognitive Decline
- Presentation/Opisthotonus Persistent Infant
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Course/Fulminant/Precipitous
- Course/Lethal
- Course/Lethal possible/not usual
- Course/Potentially lethal/untreated
- Course/Prognosis bad/usually
- Course/Severe illness
- Course/Untreated mortality high
- Lethal Potential
- Signs & Symptoms
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