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HUMAN INFECTION BY VIBRIO FETUS
Author(s) -
Cooper I. A.,
Slee K. J.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb92386.x
Subject(s) - fetus , pathogen , disease , isolation (microbiology) , abortion , biology , human pathogen , pregnancy , immunology , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , bacteria , pathology , genetics
Recognition of Vibrio fetus as a human pathogen and its laboratory isolation is becoming increasingly important. Although over 80 cases of human vibriosis have been reported to date, no previous such infection has been reported in Australia. The case reported here demonstrates the pathogenicity of the organism in man, especially in association with debilitating disease. Reports in the literature show that V. fetus may be responsible for a variety of modes of clinical presentation ranging from frank septicæmia to abortion in pregnant women. This patient, while manifesting frank septicæmia, was also demonstrated to have intestinal infection. This finding suggests strongly that the infection was of endogenous origin, but it should be emphasized that the further elucidation of this disease requires careful bacteriological studies to eliminate the other modes of spread that have been suggested.