Depending on how it enters the body and the immune status of the person who contracts the infection, the Vibrio vulnificus causes various clinical pictures.
In most cases, the Vibrio vulnificus it is responsible for food poisoning due to the ingestion of raw and contaminated molluscs or crustaceans, which manifest themselves in the form of diarrheal discharges associated with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
On other - fortunately rare - occasions, however, the Vibrio vulnificus it behaves like a bacterium eats meat, then penetrates inside the organism through open skin wounds and causes necrotizing infections (infectious cellulitis first, then necrotizing fasciitis). If from the gastrointestinal tract or from the traumatized epithelial surfaces it reaches the bloodstream, the Vibrio vulnificus can induce sepsis.
, asporigenous and capsule-free. The bacterial cell has a curvature along the major axis, which makes it a comma or C shape. Mobility is ensured by a single polar flagellum. The optimum growth temperature is 37 ° C.
