Diseases

Fish Handler’s Nodule

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Fish-handler's disease is a nonspecific term that is in the medical and lay literature that describes a disease or syndrome of humans that may occur after handling fishor, in some instances, other aquatic organisms. ... Fish Handler's nodules. Fishtank Granuloma. Swimming pool granuloma. Fish tuberculosis.

SYMPTOMS

The disease generally develops two to seven days after injury to the skin and subsequent bacterial infection.
A sharply defined, red-purple circular area appears and surrounds the puncture; the center usually fades, and occasionally a vesicle (blister-like lesion) may appear.

CAUSES

Fish-handler's disease causes. Fish-handler's disease occurs when cuts or scrapes in the skin become infected with the bacteria erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and other species. This is an erysipeloid infection.