listerellan.

1927 J. H. Pirie in Publ. S. Afr. Inst. Med. Res. III. xx. 164 The ‘Tiger River Disease’ is present among gerbilles... The causative organism of this disease is a small Gram-positive bacillus, for which, from its most striking pathogenic effect, I propose the specific name hepatolytica, and the generic name, Listerella, dedicating it in honour of Lord Lister, one of the most distinguished of those connected with bacteriology whose name has not been commemorated in bacteriological nomenclature.

1940 J. H. Pirie in Science 19 Apr. 383 I have been informed..that the new name Listerella which I proposed for a genus of bacteria in 1927 had already been given to a Mycetozoan by Jahn in 1906 and to one of the Foraminifera by Cushman in 1939. My proposed name, therefore, becomes a homonym, but as the genus has acquired some importance in both human and veterinary pathology and references to ‘Listerellosis’ are becoming fairly common in literature, I think that a name as near to my original proposal as possible is desirable. I therefore propose Listeria, as the name for the genus of bacteria as defined by me in Publication No. XX of the South African Institute for Medical Research.]

1940 Vet. Jrnl. 96 330 Listerella were recovered from the uteri of the sheep slaughtered immediately after aborting.

1948 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 55 471 (heading) A new technique for isolating listerellae from the bovine brain.

1940 J. H. Pirie in Science 19 Apr. 383 I have been informed..that the new name Listerella which I proposed for a genus of bacteria in 1927 had already been given to a Mycetozoan by Jahn in 1906 and to one of the Foraminifera by Cushman in 1939. My proposed name, therefore, becomes a homonym, but as the genus has acquired some importance in both human and veterinary pathology and references to ‘Listerellosis’ are becoming fairly common in literature, I think that a name as near to my original proposal as possible is desirable. I therefore propose Listeria, as the name for the genus of bacteria as defined by me in Publication No. XX of the South African Institute for Medical Research.]

1939 Science 6 Oct. 337/1 More recently Biester and Schwarte reported spontaneous bovine listerellosis in Iowa.

1948 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 55 473 Listerellosis as manifested in the ovine is extremely acute.

1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. ix. 190 Infection with the small gram-positive rod, Listeria monocytogenes (listerellosis) is limited largely to meningitis, although it apparently causes abortions and stillbirths.