Volume 10, Number 8, August 2004

Vibrio vulnificus in Taiwan

Po-Ren Hsueh,* Ching-Yih Lin,† Hung-Jen Tang,† Hsin-Chun Lee,‡ Jien-Wei Liu,§ Yung-Ching Liu,¶ and Yin-Ching Chuang†
*National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; †Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan; ‡National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan; §Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; and ¶National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Figure 2. Characteristic skin lesions of Vibrio vulnificus infection and morphotype of the microorganism. A) Gangrenous change with hemorrhagic bullae over the leg in a 75-year-old patient with liver cirrhosis in whom septic shock and V. vulnificus bacteremia developed. B) V. vulnificus bacteremia developed 1 day after a fish bone injury on the fourth finger of the left hand (arrow) in a 45-year-old patient with uremia. C) Gram-negative curved bacilli (arrowhead) isolated from a blood sample of the 45-year-old patient with uremia.

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