Fact sheets

Listeria fact sheet   (PDF 235.16KB)

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• OD 0103/08 Public Health Intervention for Sporadic Enteric Notifications

• OD 0101/08 Exclusion Guidelines for Patients with Enteric Infections and Their Contacts

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

• WA epidemiology

Case definition

Reporting

Only confirmed cases should be notified. Where a mother and foetus/neonate are both confirmed, both cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

Isolation or detection of Listeria monocytogenes from a site that is normally sterile, including foetal gastrointestinal contents.