French researchers have reported in a new study that people with certain conditions, including leukemia, other cancers and pregnancy, are at the greatest risk of getting sick from the food-borne bacterium Listeria.
The results “will help focus risk communication for the medical community,” said Ramon Guevara, an epidemiologist for the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. “If you do have an outbreak you want to say who are the high-risk people,” he added.
“I would like to target recommendations for prevention to persons with hematological malignancy (blood, bone marrow and lymph cancers), especially those undergoing immunosuppressive treatment,” Goulet said.
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