Vibrio vulnificus Essays

Cholera is a disease that can be acquired by drinking water or eating food that is contaminated with the Cholera bacteria. Cholera usually spreads when eating raw or undercooked shellfish. The cholera bacterium can be found in marine water attaching itself to chitin-containing sea creatures. The cholera bacteria infects the intestines and the spreads to the rest of the body after it is ingested. The infection can be mild or with no symptoms, but 5-10% of people infected will have severe cholera

presence as well as the spread of a specific group of prokaryotes known as the vibrios is responsible for a multitude of infections in humans as well as animals. “Such increases has been associated with an unprecedented occurrence of environmentally acquired Vibrio infections in the population of Northern Europe as well as the Atlantic coast along the United States in recent years” (Vezzulli, Grande, Reid…Pruzzo, 2016). Vibrios is a gram negative bacterium that affects humans and is in the same family

and skin tissue. Flesh eating bacteria release toxin and destroy the surrounded tissue. This infection occurs in people with compromised immune system. The bacterias that caused this infection are Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio vulnificus, Clostridium perfringens, Bacteroides fragilis, Aeromonas hydrophila. The infection usually begins locally by a trauma that allows the bacteria to enter the body. Necrotizing fasciitis often occurs after a minor trauma, such as scratching,