[Epidemiology of animal Listeria infections in France].

The animal listeriosis are sporadic diseases in the herds and flocks of herbivores generally in intensive farming with silage foods. The disease attacks other domestic or wild species. It's generally isolated cases or rare. The carrier animals are large in many species. 428 outbreaks have been detected in 1998-1999 of which 259 in cattle and 108 in sheep. The abortive forms are more important in the cattle and the meningoencephalitis in the sheep and goats. Cases are found in the poultry, birds, horse, dog, roe deer, rabbit, hare and wild boar.