Abstract
Part of this work was presented at the 160th meeting of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Hammersmith Hospital, London, January 1990.
Cultured dairy products are increasingly used in a number of disorders. Dairy products are often implicated in sporadic and epidemic cases of listeriosis. One hundred samples of yoghurt were examined for the presence of Listeria spp. Listeria spp. were not detected in any sample. Reasons for this are dismsed. It is concluded that the risk of acquisition of listeriosis fiom the medical use of yoghurt is low.
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