Listeria monocytogenes endocarditis

Abstract

A fatal case of endocarditis due to Listeria monocytogenes is reported. Case reports of endocarditis due to this organism are rare but indicate a higher mortality than with many other causes of bacterial endocarditis. The size of the problem may be underestimated because the organism has a 'diphtheroid' appearance and may be incorrectly dismis as a contaminant. © The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 1985.