Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Aug 15;59(4):532-40. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu365. Epub 2014 May 20.
Listeriosis is characterized by bacteremia or meningitis. We searched for listeriosis case series and outbreak investigations published in English by 2013, and assessed the strength of evidence for foodborne acquisition among patients who ate hospital food. We identified 30 reports from 13 countries. Among the case series, the median proportion of cases considered to be hospital-acquired was 25% (range, 9%-67%). The median number of outbreak-related illnesses considered to be hospital-acquired was 4.0 (range, 2-16). All patients were immunosuppressed in 18 of 24 (75%) reports with available data. Eight outbreak reports with strong evidence for foodborne acquisition in a hospital implicated sandwiches (3 reports), butter, precut celery, Camembert cheese, sausage, and tuna salad (1 report each). Foodborne acquisition of listeriosis among hospitalized patients is well documented internationally. The number of listeriosis cases could be reduced substantially by establishing hospital policies for safe food preparation for immunocompromised patients and by not serving them higher-risk foods.
李斯特菌病的特征为菌血症或脑膜炎。我们检索了截至 2013 年以英文发表的李斯特菌病病例系列和暴发调查,并评估了食用医院供餐的患者经食物感染的证据力度。我们从 13 个国家中确定了 30 篇报告。在病例系列中,认为属医院获得性感染的病例比例中位数为 25%(范围,9%-67%)。与暴发相关、认为属医院获得性感染的病例数中位数为 4.0(范围,2-16)。在有可用数据的 24 篇报告中的 18 篇中,所有患者均存在免疫抑制。8 篇有确凿证据表明与食物相关的医院获得性感染暴发涉及三明治(3 篇报告)、黄油、预切芹菜、卡芒贝尔奶酪、香肠和金枪鱼沙拉(各 1 篇报告)。国际上已有大量关于住院患者李斯特菌病经食物感染的记录。通过为免疫功能低下患者制定安全的食物制备医院政策,并避免为他们提供高风险食物,可以大大减少李斯特菌病病例数量。