Soft-Tissue Infection Due to Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Aeromonas hydrophila

Soft-Tissue Infection Due to Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Aeromonas hydrophila

Urgent message: Failure to recognize and treat the early development of skin and soft-tissue infection from a stingray envenomation may result in significant tissue necrosis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome. WILLIAM A. WOOLERY, DO, PhD, MS, MBA, FACOFP Stingray injuries to humans are very common but rarely fatal. Approximately 2000 cases are reported annually in the United States.1–3 At my rural hospital on the west coast of Florida, we see an average of 45 such …

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