Rare Strain of Vibrio cholerae Septicemia in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma

Table 1

Reported Vibrio cases in the United States in 2011, taken directly from the 2011 COVIS annual report published in the CDC website [6].

			Demographic characteristics				Outcomes
Vibrio species	Cases		Age (years)		Sex		Hospitalizations		Deaths
		%	Median	Range	Male (/)	%	/	%	/	%
V. alginolyticus	156	18	33	2–86	118/155	76	16/146	11	0/144	0
V. cholerae (excluding toxigenic O1 and O139)	86	10	48	1–85	59/86	69	28/82	34	3/80	4
Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae (formerly V. damselae)	7	1	55	6–77	4/7	57	3/6	50	0/1	0
V. fluvialis	37	4	65	20–108	18/37	49	18/34	53	0/33	0
Grimontia hollisae (formerly V. hollisae)	7	1	50	42–75	7/7	100	4/7	57	0/6	0
V. mimicus	15	2	45	4–87	11/14	79	6/15	47	0/15	0
V. parahaemolyticus	334	39	45	1–94	225/334	67	75/315	24	7/304	2
V. vulnificus	113	13	60	8–91	87/111	78	89/113	87	34/108	31
Species not identified	87	10	44	3–93	51/86	59	19/82	23	4/78	5
Multiple species^†	11	1	52	23–80	7/11	64	4/11	36	0/10	0
Total	853	100	47	1–108	587/848	69	272/811	34	48/785	6

Including 86 nontoxigenic V. cholerae (non-O1/non-O139 [68 cases], O1 [2 cases], O139 [1 case], and no serogroup specified [2 cases]) and 13 toxigenic V. cholerae (O75 [12 cases] and O141 [1 case]).
^†The following combinations of Vibrio species were isolated from patients infected with multiple species: V. alginolyticus, V. parahaemolyticus (3 patients); V. cholerae O1, V. parahaemolyticus (1 patient); V. fluvialis, V. parahaemolyticus (1 patient); P. damselae subsp. damselae, Vibrio species not identified (1 patient); V. fluvialis, V. furnissii (1 patient); V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus (1 patient); V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139, Vibrio species not identified (1 patient); V. alginolyticus, Vibrio species not identified (1 patient); V. alginolyticus, P. damselae subsp. damselae (1 patient). None of these are included in the rows for individual species.