Fatal Vibrio vulnificus infection associated with eating raw oysters, New Caledonia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 136-137

  Cazorla, Cecile ^a   Guigon, Aurelie ^b   Noel, Martine ^c   Quilici, Marie Laure ^d   Lacassin, Flore ^a  

^a New Caledonian Territorial Hospital Internal Medecine Unit   (New Caledonia)

^b Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Caledonie Noumea   (New Caledonia)

^c Direction des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de la Nouvelle Calédonie   (New Caledonia)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; ECCHYMOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; LEG EDEMA; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; NEW CALEDONIA; OYSTER; PURPURA; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE NECROSIS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

AGED; ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW CALEDONIA; OSTREIDAE; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 78650991794     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1701.100603     Document Type: Letter

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