Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Vibrio vulnificus, Mycobacterium marinum – USA: (LA)
PRO/EDR> Vibrio vulnificus, Mycobacterium marinum – USA: (LA)
Vibrio vulnificus, Mycobacteria, non-TB -- United StatesIt is only early spring and already, Christus St. Patrick Hospital infectious disease physician, Dr. Tim Haman, says 1 case each of infection with _Vibrio vulnificus_, a cause of flesh-eating bacterial disease [necrotizing fasciitis - Mod.LL], and _Mycobacterium marinum_ [a more indolent skin infection caused by a tuberculosis-related organism that does not transmit from person to person - Mod.LL] have sickened people from exposure to salty-brackish Read more [...]
