What is mycobacterium marinum?
Mycobacterium marinum is the least virulent infectious mycobacterium, which is well known for creating lesions in human tissue. m. Marinum is wild in the aquatic environment and due to its similarity to tuberculosis bacteria, m. tuberculosis, it is sometimes called "fish tuberculosis". Mycobacterium marinum , for the first time, produces small red pustules that slowly spread in the body of infected fish, first see the dying fish. Attempts to treat such infected fish without protection or attempt to clean the infected tank can result in human infection. When people unknowingly enter swimming pools that are not adequately chlorinated, other swimmers are at risk.
infections are rare in mammals due to their high body temperatures. Mycobacterium marinum survives well at temperatures below 98.6 ° F (37 degrees C), and thus usually attacks the cooler parts of the human body. In natural fresh water, salt water or exposure to the pool are lOctic, knees and legs - hands and fingers in the aquarium - vulnerable. The disease is not known to be fatal in humans.
Symptoms mycobacterium marinum are stressed by freshwater tropical fish emphasized by lack of food, impure environment or poorly heated reservoirs. The waste -made puffs are internal and bacteria are rarely transmitted from fish to fish.
People of contracts m. Marinum when open wounds are infected in the aquatic environment. The wounds exposed to bacteria do not heal completely and create knots along the reddish scar tissue. mycobacterium marinum can travel from the wound to the bloodstream, where movable and compressible nodes on the veins walls were observed on the walls of the infection. The mounts Mycobacterium marinum are so weak that the only place where the incubation period of two to four weeks has been observed is in immunocompromised patients.
m.Marinum is considered less virulent than its relatives, tuberculosis and leprosy. Without a means of adaptation, the bacterium is only slightly contagious and susceptible to antibiotics. Unlike its tuberculosis and leprosy, mycobacterium marinum atypical mycobacterium, because it cannot withstand any number of mycobacterial drugs, so early treatment is relatively easy.
Fish tuberculosis is rare in humans and the diagnosis of the disease lasts up to a year because many doctors are not familiar with the disease. The antibiotic cocktail is most effective against the disease. Complete recovery and disappearance of nodes can take up to six months, so prevention is supported. One should not swim into the water or manipulate the water from the fish tank while it has an open wound or drink such a watehm inadvertently by siphling into the mouth.