Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun listeria_meningitis

1 sense of listeria meningitis

Sense 1
listeriosis, listeria meningitis -- (an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms)
       => infectious disease -- (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)