Listeria-Associated Lymphadenitis: A Series of 11 Consecutive Cases and Review of the Literature

Mathieu Blot; Olivier Disson; Alexandre Leclercq; Alexandra Moura; Hélène Bracq-Dieye; Pierre Thouvenot; Guillaume Valès; Barbara Burroni; Audrey Lupo; Marc Lecuit; Caroline Charlier

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab598

Listeria-Associated Lymphadenitis: A Series of 11 Consecutive Cases and Review of the Literature

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Jan 10;9(1):ofab598. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab598. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Mathieu Blot^{1

2

3}, Olivier Disson³, Alexandre Leclercq¹, Alexandra Moura^{1

3}, Hélène Bracq-Dieye¹, Pierre Thouvenot¹, Guillaume Valès¹, Barbara Burroni⁴, Audrey Lupo⁴, Marc Lecuit^{1

2

3}, Caroline Charlier^{1

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Institut Pasteur, French National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center Listeria, Paris, France.
² Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Institut Imagine, Paris, France.
³ Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Inserm U1117, Biology of Infection Unit, Paris, France.
⁴ Department of Anatomopathology, Paris Centre University Hospital, Paris, France.
⁵ Paris Centre University Hospitals, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Institut Imagine, Paris, France.

Abstract

We studied 11 cases of culture-proven Listeria-associated lymphadenitis reported to the French National Reference Center for Listeria from 1994 to 2019 and 8 additional published cases. Listeria-associated lymphadenitis is rare, but it is associated with a mortality as high as for invasive listeriosis, and it is frequently diagnosed with concomitant neoplasia.

Keywords: Listeria monocytogenes; adenitis; cancer.