Wound Infection
Aeromonas have long been implicated as a major causative agent of infections in fish and associated with human diarrheal disease. Although less common than infection through ingestion, opportunistic wound infections with Aeromonas have been reported as a result of exposure to contaminated water, such as through swimming and boating accidents and fishing-hook wounds. Cellulitis, myonecrosis, and ecthyma gangrenosum can result. Amputation and death from systemic septicemia can occur.
To learn more about Aeromonas, visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
website http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ucmr/data_aeromonas.html.
