Antimicrobial Resistance In Vibrios

This chapter addresses antimicrobial resistance in a genus – Vibrio – that results in two distinct clinical syndromes. One is profound diarrheal disease – cholera – caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139. The other is often the fatal wound infection and sepsis caused by a variety of halophilic (saltloving) vibrios (1) – with V. vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus perhaps being the most commonly occurring species (2–4) but including infections with V. alginolyticus (5), V. harveyi, V. fl uvialis, and others (6).