Listeriosis in a premature neonate with meconium staining

This report describes a preterm newborn 32 weeks gestation and listeriosis that present with meconium staining. The passage of meconium on response to stress in seldom observed before a gestational age of 34 weeks. so, with the meconium staining appearance in this gestational age or less, should prompt a high index of suspicion for listeriosis