Meningitis due to Listeria monocytogenes is a rare disease. The first cases were reported by Burn1in 1936. Kaplan,2in a review of the literature to 1945, stated that the number of cases from which this organism had been isolated and identified was 23, of which 13 were cases of meningitis. Handelman and others3reported a case with recovery in a 6-week-old infant using penicillin and sulfadiazine. Martin and others4reported the case of a 57-year-old man in France who died despite penicillin and sulfonamide therapy. Van Driest5and Slooff6in the Netherlands reported two cases in newborn infants both of whom recovered after receiving penicillin and sulfadiazine. A 3-week-old infant was treated successfully by Beute and his colleagues7in the Netherlands, using sulfadiazine. Stanley8in Australia isolated L. monocytogenes postmortem from the cerebrospinal fluid of a 79-year-old woman. A 32-year-old male