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The disease, which is largely confined to its risk groups of pregnant women, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals, has increased in incidence in recent years.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>In Portugal, listeriosis is not a notifiable infection and available data are scarce.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>The objective of this work was to collate the available information concerning listeriosis in Portugal by compiling a retrospective study of cases recorded over a decade.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Requests for case data on clinically confirmed listeriosis, recorded over the previous decade, were replied to by 23 hospitals and a National Institute of Health delegation.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>35 cases of listeriosis were identified for the period between 1994 and 2003 inclusive, the mortality rate being greater than 17%. According to the data collected in this study for the year 2003, the incidence of this disease in Portugal was at least 1.4 cases per million inhabitants in that year.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The study demonstrates, for the first time in the widely available literature, that despite their being no cases of listeriosis in Portugal recorded in official reports, the threat of <jats:italic>L. monocytogenes<\/jats:italic> to public health is of a similar dimension to that in other countries.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2334-6-153","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,10,20]],"date-time":"2006-10-20T18:15:33Z","timestamp":1161368133000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Listeriosis in Portugal: an existing but under reported infection"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Gon\u00e7alo N","family":"Almeida","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Paul A","family":"Gibbs","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Tim A","family":"Hogg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Paula C","family":"Teixeira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,10,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"417_CR1","volume-title":"Listeria: A practical approach to the organism and its control in foods","author":"C Bell","year":"2005","unstructured":"Bell C, Kyriakides A: Listeria: A practical approach to the organism and its control in foods. 2005, London: Blackwell Publishing"},{"key":"417_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"213","DOI":"10.1016\/S0740-0020(03)00057-1","volume":"21","author":"C Mena","year":"2004","unstructured":"Mena C, Almeida G, Carneiro L, Teixeira P, Hogg T, Gibbs P: Incidence of Listeria monocytogenes in different food products commercialized in Portugal. 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