Re: Any Comments???? - Listeria detected in the blood after two years?
It wasn't your wild type listeria but the treatment attenuated listeria strain that was supposed to be fairly safe. I believe the company has stated that in rare cases such events of this have been seen before and it usually had to do with prosthetics being implanted. Maybe a criteria screening change will be added to eliminate such patients from entering the trials in the future. Hey if lyme disease can hide in the body for decades, I guess it is conceivable for this attenuated listeria to do the same though the company again has stated that it is not infectious at all even if this were to happen in rare cases. I guess everyone has differences in their immune system that adds to the variability of treatment effect of immunotherapy.