A Texas-based businessman filed a lawsuit against the Beverly Hilton Hotel, among other parties, after allegedly contracting the MRSA virus during a visit to the hotel’s spa last year.

Larry Poe, a resident of Travis County, Tex., accused the Beverly Hilton, the Aqua Star Barbor Beauty Spa, Hilton Worldwide, Inc. and Beverly Hilton owner Oasis West Realty of negligence. The complaint asks for compensation for damages and court costs.

Poe, a public speaker and consultant who works for an Austin, Tex.-headquartered recruiting company called The Jobfather, asks for a jury trial in the complaint.

Poe alleges in the suit, filed in May in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, that he visited the Aqua Star Barbor Beauty Spa in February 2016. Poe was in Los Angeles for business, and he was staying at the Beverly Hilton, according to the complaint. In addition to Texas, his company has locations in Los Angeles and New York.

Poe received a facial from an aesthetician at the spa.

The aesthetician poked Poe with a pair of tweezers following an attempt to remove a hair from the left side of his upper lip, the complaint alleges, and “a small wound opened.” The aesthetician applied a cream to Poe’s upper lip – “upon information and belief, this cream was made by the spa aesthetician.”

In the days after Poe’s visit to the spa, his lip started swelling and causing pain, the complaint said. Four days after his visit, Poe was diagnosed with MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus). The complaint states that Poe spent four days in the hospital, and the infection left permanent scarring on the left side of his upper lip.

“Such injuries cause great distress to [Poe], whose professional appearance was affected to his detriment by the MRSA on his lip and remaining scarring, and whose job as a motivational speaker and business consultant requires a certain professional demeanor to impress his clients,” according to the complaint.

The complaint also alleges that Poe “has incurred lost earnings in an amount to be proven at trial, which represents the days he had to miss work as a motivational speaker and business consultant while his lip healed.”

MRSA typically appears as a bump or infected area on the skin accompanied by redness, swelling and pain, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria that causes MRSA enters the body through cuts or other wounds, and could be fatal if left untreated.

MRSA is immune to treatment with many antibiotics used for ordinary staph infections, but can be treated with certain antibiotics, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Elizabeth Maxim, a spokeswoman representing the Beverly Hilton, said the hotel does not comment on pending litigation.

A voicemail to Poe’s company was not returned.