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Vibrio in stinging seaweed: potential infection
J K Sims1, J A Brock, R Fujioka
1Department of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Hawaii Medical Journal
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
Toxic strains of the finely filamentous, velvety, dark-olive green to black algal organism, Microcolus Lyngbyaceus, (formerly Lyngbya majuscula Gomont, or "lyngbya") have been recognized as etiologic agent of "stinging seaweed" dermatitis (one of several forms of "swimmer's itch") in Hawaii since the late 1950s as reviewed. Lymphadenopathy, pustular folliculitus, and local infections have been reported in some persons.