Infections with Vibrio vulnificus

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-248

  Borenstein, Michael ^a   Kerdel, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOOD INTAKE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0038748031     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8635(02)00088-8     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Kumamoto KS, Vukich DJ. Clinical infections of Vibrio vulnificus: a case report and review of the literature. J Emerg Med 1998;16:61-6.
2. Farmer JJ. Vibrio ("Beneckea") vulnificus, the bacterium associated with sepsis, septicaemia, and the sea. Lancet 1979;8148:903.
3. Bisharat N, Agmon V, Finkelstein R, et al. Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel. Lancet 1999;354:1421-4.
4. Chuang YC, Yuan CY, Liu CY, et al. Vibrio vulnificus infection in Taiwan: report of 28 cases and review of clinical manifestations and treatment. Clin Infect Dis 1992;15:271-6.
5. Horre R, Becker S, Marklein G, et al. Necrotizing fasciitis caused by Vibrio vulnificus: first published infection in Turkey is the second time a strain is isolated in Germany. Infection 1998;26:399-401.
6. Melhus A, Holmdahl T, Tjernberg I. First documented case of bacteremia with Vibrio vulnificus in Sweden. Scand J Infect Dis 1995;27:81-2.
7. Park SD, Shon HS, Joh NJ. Vibrio vulnificus septicemia in Korea: clinical and epidemiologic findings in seventy patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 1991;24:397-403.
8. Nakafusa J, Misago N, Miura Y, et al. The importance of serum creatine phosphokinase level in the early diagnosis, and as a prognostic factor, of Vibrio vulnificus infection. Br J Dermatol 2001;145:280-4.
9. Koenig KL, Mueller J, Rose T. Vibrio vulnificus: hazard on the half shell. West J Med 1991;155:400-3.
10. Shapiro RL, Altekruse S, Hutwagner L, et al. The role of Gulf Coast oysters harvested in warmer months in Vibrio vulnificus infections in the United States, 1988-1996. J Infect Dis 1998;178:752-9.
11. Yoshida SI, Ogawa M, Mizuguchi Y. Relation of capsular materials and colony opacity to virulence of Vibrio vulnificus. Infect Immun 1985;47:446-51.
12. Espat NJ, Auffenberg T, Abouhamze A, et al. A role for tumor necrosis factor-alpha in the increased mortality associated with Vibrio vulnificus infection in the presence of hepatic dysfunction. Ann Surg 1996;223:428-33.
13. Krovacek K, Baloda SB, Dumontet S, et al. Detection of potential virulence markers of Vibrio vulnificus strains isolated from fish in Sweden. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 1994;17:63-70.
14. Maeda H, Akaike T, Sakata Y, et al. Role of bradykinin in microbial infection: enhancement of septicemia by microbial proteases and kinin. Agents Actions Suppl 1993;42:159-65.
15. Morris Jr JG, Wright AC, Simpson LM, et al. Virulence of Vibrio vulnificus, association with utilization of transferrin bound iron, and lack of correlation with levels of cytotoxin or protease production. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1987;40:55-9.
16. Wright AC, Simpson LM, Oliver JD. Role of iron in the pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus infections. Infect Immun 1981;34:503-7.
17. Stelma Jr GN, Reyes AL, Peeler JT, et al. Virulence characteristics of clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio vulnificus. Appl Environ Microbiol 1992;58:2776-82.
18. Hor LI, Chang TT, Wang ST. Survival of Vibrio Vulnificus in whole blood from patients with chronic liver diseases: association with phagocytosis by neutrophils and serum ferritin levels. J Infect Dis 1999;179:275-8.
19. Klontz KC, Lieb S, Schreiber M, et al. Syndromes of Vibrio vulnificus infections. Clinical and epidemiologic features in Florida cases, 1981-1987. Ann Intern Med 1988;109:318-23.
20. Hlady GW, Klontz KC. The epidemiology of Vibrio infections in Florida, 1981-1993. J Infect Dis 1996;173:1176-83.
21. DiGaetano M, Ball SF, Strauss JG. Vibrio vulnificus corneal ulcer. Case reports. Arch Ophthalmol 1989;107:323-4.
22. Mehtar S, Bangham L, Kalmanovitch D, et al. Adult epiglottitis due to Vibrio vulnificus. Brit Med J Clin Res 1988;296:827-8.
23. Tison DL, Kelly MT. Vibrio vulnificus endometritis. J Clin Microbiol 1984;20:185-6.
24. Katz BZ. Vibrio vulnificus meningitis in a boy with thalassemia after eating raw oysters. Pediatrics 1988;109:261-3.
25. Vartian CV, Septimus EJ. Osteomyelitis caused by Vibrio vulnificus. J Infect Dis 1990;161:363.
26. Fernandez A, Justiniani FR. Massive rhabdomyolysis: a rare presentation of primary Vibrio vulnificus septicemia. Am J Med 1990;89:535-6.
27. Wongpaitoon V, Sathaptayayongs B, Prachaktam R, et al. Spontaneous Vibrio vulnificus peritonitis and primary sepsis in two patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Am J Gastroenterol 1985;80:706-8.
28. Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R. Vibrio vulnificus infections. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, editors. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious disease, 5th edition, Vol 2. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone; 2000. p. 2274-6.