The high incidence of listeriosis during pregnancy may be due to the increased progesterone levels which would affect immune functions. Moreover, recent studies performed in China showed that more than half of listeria cases were pregnancy-associated infections. In Europe and North America, it has been observed previously that the proportion of pregnancy-associated listeriosis out of the total listeria infections ranges from 9 to 20%. Especially, it has a predilection to infect pregnant women, which is at approximately 10–100 times greater risk for infection than the general population. People principally get listeriosis by the ingestion of contaminated food. monocytogenes), a ubiquitous food-borne bacterial pathogen. Listeriosis is a rare but severe disease caused by Listeria monocytogenes ( L. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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