Threat that comes from seafood.

                  Vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative rods in the family (family) Vibrionaceae, as well as cholera.

                 Vibrio cholerae causes cholera (cholera), and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The pathogenesis of colon inflammation (colitis). By V. vulnificus often live in warm waters. In Western countries, are often found in patients infected with this summer. But in Thailand and other countries. Tropical infectious diseases, V. vulnificus can be found throughout the year. This infection usually causes disease in humans who eat contaminated seafood or have an open wound exposed to the virus. In healthy when eating foods contaminated with the virus will have symptoms in the digestive tract. In people with immune disorders, especially if liver disease is usually an infection in the bloodstream (bacteremia) associated with a severe and even fatal. A study that shows that people have. liver disease are at risk of infection in the bloodstream 80 times more than normal when the infection enters the body. Mortality. People who are infected with V. vulnificus in the blood as high as 50 percent. And 95 percent of the deaths caused by eating food from this infection. I have contacted the disease from person to person.

Clinical symptoms.

In healthy people. When eating food contaminated with this bacteria can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. By the onset of symptoms after eating food contaminated with this virus for about 16 hours. In people with immune disorders. In particular, if liver disease is usually an infection in the bloodstream. The symptoms are severe. Perhaps even fatalities. Patients often come with fever, extreme delay, chills, hypotension (septic shock) and lesions on the skin as a water blister (bleb, blisters). Patients with severe infections often have little water. with blood (hemorrhagic bleb).

V. vulnificus can cause infections of the skin and nearby tissues. If an open wound exposed to sea water containing bacteria, such as a wound open to the sea. Or diving or swimming in the sea and the coral. Or shell cut in water and so on when they are infected. A lesion is an open wound or an infection in the upper layer of the skin, such as cellulites, necrotizing fasciitis etc. Patients with symptoms of cellulitis and found that lesions of skin, water is suspected of infection and conditions of necrotizing fasciitis. in people with normal immune to the spread of infection from a skin infection enters the bloodstream and cause severe disease and complications are. Tsunami in the late 2547's showed that V. vulnificus is a major pathogen of patients with infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue layer.

V. vulnificus infections are rarely found. However, it is often diagnosed as something else, because doctors do not think this disease and not a specimen of blood or wound cultures.

In people with immune disorders, particularly liver disease are at higher risk for disease infection. When eating seafood, especially raw oysters. Immune disorders and other conditions. Found to be at high risk of infection include.

Diabetes, kidney disease, cancer, infectious diseases, HIV / AIDS, drug use in the steel body for a long time. hemochromatosis.