Fact sheets

Listeria fact sheet (PDF 235KB)

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

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

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Listeriosis notification data

• General infectious disease reports

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual  

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.