In November 2016 CMPT sent a PT sample with the Survey M163. Sample M163-3 as a simulated Wound sample collected from a 50 year old naval diver with an arm wound injury and cellulitis. The sample contained a strain of Vibrio vulnificus. The critique addressed identification and clinical relevance of this type of infection.
In June 2017, an article in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports, reported a fatal case of Vibrio vulnificus infection in a man with an infected tattoo.
You can access CMPT’s critique: https://cmpt.ca/m163-3/
and the news report: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-dies-after-flesh-eating-bacteria-vibrio-infects-new-tattoo/
