Vibrio cholerae is a major concern worldwide and usually strikes because of a lack of clean drinking water. But in the U.S., Vibrio parahaemolyticus and vulnificus are more common.

May 13, 2024 — A longstanding mystery about the strain of Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) responsible for the seventh global cholera pandemic is how this lineage has managed to out-compete other ...

Though Vibrio cholerae is not a major health concern in the United States, there are 1.3 million to 4 million cases of the disease cholera and up to 143,000 deaths from it annually around the ...

Neighbor predation linked to natural competence fosters the transfer of large genomic regions in Vibrio cholerae. eLife , 2019; 8 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.48212 Cite This Page : ...

Some disease-causing bacteria congregate inside thick sugary ‘biofilms’, which shield the microbes from attack by host immune cells. But researchers have found that Vibrio cholerae, the comma ...

TWO Ogawa strains of V. cholerae maintained for six months in the laboratory by fortnightly subculture on agar slopes, and two Inaba strains maintained similarly for about eighteen months have ...

The CDC said many infections from Vibrio vulnificus — which has killed at least 13 this year — are acquired after an open wound is exposed to warm coastal waters.

Princeton University researchers have identified the protein that allows Vibrio cholerae — the bacteria behind the life-threatening disease cholera — to morph into a corkscrew shape that allows them ...

The evolutionary history of the pandemic Vibrio cholerae lineage shows that its emergence has not been linear, but shaped by several key genetic bottlenecks that explain its rarity. From a group ...

Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent responsible for cholera. It is a bean-shaped bacterium with a long tail that it uses for self-propulsion. The bacteria are transmitted between humans through the ...