Neonatal Listeriosis:

Nasser Ezzat El Shahat Mohamed

Infections are frequents and important causes of morbidity and mortality in neonatal period. As many as 2% of fetuses are infected in utero and up to 10% of ifants are infected during de-livery or first month of life. Inflammatory lesions are found in about 25% of new born infant.The most common organisms causing neonatal septicemia are eschericia coli and group B streptococci, Hae- mophilus influenza, and listeria monocytogenes.Listeria monocytogenes wich we try to determine its in-cidence occurrence, in neonatal period is one of the important cause of neonatal septicemia in early period. Listeria monocytogenes was reported as the third cause of neonatal sepsis.