Vibrio vulnificus

Additional Information

Surveillance

• Annual Summaries of Vibrio Illnesses

MMWR Articles

• Vibrio vulnificus Infections Associated with Eating Raw Oysters - Los Angeles, 1996. MMWR July 26, 1996 / Vol. 45 / No. 29

• Vibrio vulnificus Infections Associated with Raw Oyster Consumption - Florida, 1981-1992. MMWR June 4, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. 21

Related Internet Sites

• CDC National Surveillance Team

References

• CDC. Vibrio vulnificus infections associated with eating raw oysters - Los Angeles, 1996. MMWR 1996; 45: 621-624.
• CDC. Vibrio vulnificus infections associated with raw oyster consumption - Florida, 1981-1992. MMWR 1993; 42: 405-407.
• Shapiro RL, Altekruse S, Hutwagner L, Bishop R, Hammond R, Wilson S, Ray B, Thompson S, Tauxe RV, Griffin PM, and the Vibrio Working Group. The role of Gulf Coast oysters harvested in warmer months in Vibrio vulnificus infections in the United States, 1988-1996. J Infect Dis 1998; 179: 752-759.
• Klontz KC, Lieb S, Schreiber M, Janowski HT, Baldy LM, Gunn RA. Syndromes of Vibrio vulnificus infections. Clinical and epidemiologic features in Florida cases, 1981-1987. Ann Intern Med 1988; 109: 318-323.
• Banatvala N, Hlady WG, Ray BJ, McFarland LM, Thompson S, Tauxe RV. Vibrio vulnificus infection reporting on death certificates: The invisible impact of an often fatal infection. Epidemiology and Infection 1997; 118: 221-225.
• Bisharat N, Agmon A, Finkelstein R, Raz R, Ben-Dror G, Lerner L, Soboh S, Colodner R, Cameron DN, Wykstra DL, Swerdlow D, Farmer III JJ, Israel Vibrio Study Group. Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel. The Lancet 1999; 354: 1421-1424.
• Daniels NA, Evans MC, Griffin PM. Noncholera Vibrios. Chapter 10, Emerging Infections 4, ASM Press, Washington, D.C., 2000.