Citation

Sims JK, Enomoto PI, Frankel RI, Wong LM. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1983; 12(4): 212-216.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6838027

Abstract

Of the hundreds of species of bacteria in seawater, in marine sediments, and associated with marine organisms, more than 20 are known human pathogens. Based on published data, wherein a variety of marine bacteria have been cultured from open wounds (eg, coral cuts) and from near-drowning pneumonias, it is hypothesized that these bacteria can provide a primary infectious inoculation of open marine wounds and of the respiratory tract of near-drowners.

Language: en