Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:25:38 -0500 (EST)
>From: ProMED <promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu>
>Subject: PRO/AH> Vibrio vulnificus, fatal - Israel (02): background
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>VIBRIO VULNIFICUS, FATAL - ISRAEL (02): BACKGROUND
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>Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003
>From: S. Berger <mberger@post.tau.ac.il> [edited]
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>_Vibrio vulnificus_ was 1st isolated in Israel during 1996 and was implicated
>in 62 cases (0 fatal) of wound infection during May 1996 to Dec 1997,
>acquired from handling commercially-raised fresh water fish (St. Peter's fish
>= _Tilapia spp_). A heretofore undescribed strain (_V. vulnificus_ biotype 3)
>was isolated from these patients [1,2].
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>106 cases (66 laboratory-confirmed) of _V. vulnificus_ biotype 3 infection
>were reported during 1996 to 1997.
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>_Vibrio vulnificus_ was found in 6.9 percent of sea water (Mediterranean) and
>1.4 percent of beach sand samples during 1993 to 1994; 32.8 percent of sea
>water and 2.9 percent of beach sand during 1996 to 1998.
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>[1] Nudelman A, Edelson G, Linden A, Raz R. Infection by _Vibrio vulnificus_
>after a prick from from the spine of a Tilapia. Harefuah. 1997;133:444-5, 502.
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>[2] Bisharat N, Agmon V, Finkelstein R, et al. Clinical, epidemiological, and
>microbiological features of _Vibrio vulnificus_ biogroup 3 causing outbreaks
>of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel. Israel Vibrio Study Group.
>Lancet. 1999; 354: 1421-4.
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>Steve Berger
>Geographic Medicine
>Tel Aviv Medical Center
><mberger@post.tau.ac.il>
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>[Dr Steve Berger is gratefully acknowledged for the complementary
>information. - Mod.AS]
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