Tissue Invasion by Unnamed Marine Vibrios

Fernandez, C. Raymond

doi:10.1001/jama.1975.03260110031016

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“…2 In 1975, Fernandez and Pankey reported three patients whose soft tissue was infected by a bacteria called "unnamed marine Vibrio". 3 In 1976, Hollis et al identified a halophilic Vibrio in blood samples obtained from 38 patients and they discovered that this bacillus was another Vibrio spp. that was neither Vibrio alginolyticus nor V. parahaemolyticus, and named this lactose-positive Vibrio.…”

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Epidemiological survey of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Japan between 1999 and 2003

Inoue¹,

Ono

Matsui³

et al. 2008

The Journal of Dermatology

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The frequency of Vibrio vulnificus infection is very rare and there are many questions regarding its epidemiology in Japan. To investigate the clinical course and epidemiology of V. vulnificus infection in Japan, we performed a retrospective questionnaire survey in which 1693 hospitals from all over Japan were surveyed, including advanced life saving emergency centers and dermatology institutions. Of the 1693 hospitals, we received answers from 1045. Ninety-four cases were confirmed as V. vulnificus infections during 1999 and 2003. Sixty-eight (72.3%) of the 94 patients had the septic type infection with a mortality rate of 75.0% (51/68 patients died). The prognosis of patients with the septic type was worse than that of the wound type (P < 0.001). V. vulnificus infections occurred from June to November and none occurred in winter. Many infections occurred in western Japan with the majority of infections (50/94) occurring in Kyushu. In particular, 43 infections occurred in marine coastal areas of the Ariake and Yatsushiro Seas, which have many tidelands. Seventy-seven of 89 patients (86.5%) had liver function impairment as an underlying disease, and 53 (59.6%) had liver cirrhosis, of whom nine (10.1%) suffered from liver cancer. The incidence of V. vulnificus infection was different according to districts. Geographic and climatic factors also contributed to the occurrence of V. vulnificus infection.

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Epidemiological survey of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Japan between 1999 and 2003

Inoue¹,

Ono

Matsui³

et al. 2008

The Journal of Dermatology

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“…The halophilic bacterium, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, has gained worldwide attention since 1950 as the causative organism of numerous outbreaks of severe gastroenteritis (1,5,8,21). More recently, reports have involved the halophilic vibrios in cases of extraintestinal infections (7,9,11,14,15,17,19,22). In 1976, Hollis et al (9), of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga., reported that the responsible organism for many of these infections was an unnamed Vibrio species.…”

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Experimental pathogenicity and mortality in ligated ileal loop studies of the newly reported halophilic lactose-positive Vibrio sp

Poole¹,

Oliver²

1978

Infect Immun

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Laboratory animals were challenged subcutaneously, intraperitoneally, and intravenously with the halophilic lactose-positive Vibrio. Intraperitoneal inocula of l0o organisms proved to be rapidly lethal in mice, rats, and hamsters. The 50% lethal dose in ICR strain mice was estimated to be 8 x 105 live cells, injected intraperitoneally or subcutaneously. Subcutaneous inocula in mice resulted in severe local infections, characterized by gross edema, and for those animals surviving longer than 48 h, tissue necrosis. Intravenous, intraperitoneal, and subcutaneous injections of 10' cells in mice resulted in death within 3 to 6 h. These animals rapidly developed Vibrio bacteremia after injections. V. parahaemolyticus, studied for comparative purposes, produced no morbidity or mortality when injected subcutaneously. Injections of live lactose-positive Vibrio into ligated ileal loops in rats and rabbits consistently proved to be lethal with a highdensity bacteremia resulting.

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“…The organisms were not agglutinated by anti-vibrio 0 group I serum. The isolated strains differed from L+ vibrio in the absence of ge1atinase, the presence of acid production from arabinose, sucrose and xylose and, their failure to produce acid from mannose (2,6,(8)(9)(10). To summarize, it might be presumed that the isolates from our patient belong to some other species of halophilic vibrios.…”

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“…In addition, V. alginolyticus has been isolated from infections of the extremities, eyes and ears of individuals who have been in contact with the marine environment (5,11,14,17). Recently an unnamed halophilic Vibrio species, the so-called lactose positive (L+) vibrio, isolated from septicemia and skin lesions, has been reported (2,6,(8)(9)(10). We found a halophilic vibrio in a patient with chronic cholecystitis and examined its biochemical characteristics.…”

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A Halophilic Vibrio Isolated from a Case of Chronic Cholecystitis

Konishi

Yamagishi

Sakamoto

1981

Microbiology and Immunology

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We found a halophilic vibrio in B bile from a 75-year-old female patient with chronic cholecystitis, and examined its biochemical characteristics. The organisms are gram-negative short rods or comma shaped, with some ring forms. They have a single polar flagellum, but no capsule. The strains can grow in peptone water with 1.0 to 4.0% NaCI, but not with no NaCI or 6.0% NaCI. The characteristics of the organisms are positive dextrose fermentation, catalase, oxidase, and ornithine decarboxylase, and negative lysine decarboxylase, arginine dihydrolase, and absence of gas from glucose. They are sensitive to 2,4-diamine-6,7-diisopropyl pteridine (0/129). These characteristics indicate that the isolated strain should be a halophilic vibrio. However, no growth on Salmonella-Shigella (SS), SS with added sucrose and bromcresol purple (SS-SB), MacConkey's or thiosulfate citrate bile salts (TCBS) agar plates was demonstrated. Nitrate reduction, Simmons' citrate agar, indole, o-nitrophenol-p-d-galactopyranoside (ONPG), motility and esculin hydrolysis were positive. Urease, gelatinase, VogesProskauer, phenylalanine deaminase and malonate reactions were negative. Acid was produced from amygdalin, arabinose, cellobiose, fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, maltose, mannitol, salicin, starch, sucrose, trehalose, and xylose, but not from adonitol, dulcitol, inositol, mannose, melibiose, raffinose, rhamnose and sorbitol. From these characteristics the isolate is considered to be not identical with V. parahaemolyticus, V. cholerae, V. oulnificus or other vibrios. It can be presumed that this isolate represents another species of halophilic vibrio.

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Tissue Invasion by Unnamed Marine Vibrios

Cited by 53 publications

References 16 publications

Epidemiological survey of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Japan between 1999 and 2003

Epidemiological survey of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Japan between 1999 and 2003

Experimental pathogenicity and mortality in ligated ileal loop studies of the newly reported halophilic lactose-positive Vibrio sp

A Halophilic Vibrio Isolated from a Case of Chronic Cholecystitis

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