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From: Comorbidities and factors associated with central nervous system infections and death in non-perinatal listeriosis: a clinical case series

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Patients follow-up after positive listeria culture. * Peritonitis – endocarditis - infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. ** 1) bilateral hearing loss, 2) discrete dysarthria and mild instability in Romberg (test used to investigate the ataxia. A positive Romberg test suggests that the ataxia is sensory in nature) and in walking on a straight line, 3) slight diplopia (a trochlear nerve palsy), 4) memory loss and forgetfulness (damage of the mammillary body and fornix), 5) dystonia (difficulty in opening jaw), 6) persistence of an impaired general condition with small steps walk and brachypsychie, 7) discrete right dysdiadochokinesia, hypoesthesia in the territory V2, V3 to and an ataxic walk with deviation to the right side, 8) right hemibody motor deficit with Babinski sign, 9) dysarthria, 10) deep sensitivity deficit of the left arm and left leg and 11) mild paresis of the right upper and lower limb

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