By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaA recent study published in PNAS looked at how Vibrio cholerae interacts with chitin, focusing on ...

Vibrio cholerae is the aetiological agent of cholera, a severe diarrhoeal disease that occurs most frequently in epidemic form 1. Cholera has been epidemic in southern Asia for at least 1,000 ...

New research from EPFL, Switzerland, offers fresh insights into how some gut bacteria protect themselves against deadly cholera infection opening doors for the design of probiotic strains that can ...

There are a few different species that cause illness. Vibrio cholerae is a major concern worldwide and usually strikes because of a lack of clean drinking water. But in the U.S., Vibrio ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.

Cholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with Vibrio cholerae. People can get sick when they swallow food or water contaminated with cholera bacteria. A new study ...

Natural antimicrobials called microcins are produced by bacteria in the gut and show promise in fighting infection. On the left, a Vibrio cholerae strain that produces the antimicrobial MvcC (center) ...

The research paper investigates a novel strategy for inhibiting the spread and infection of Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria responsible for the disease, cholera. The research article is entitled ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national health alert Friday to warn clinicians to be on the lookout for infections with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus.

"The big problem," she says, is "if the groundwater become populate." She means contaminated with Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that causes cholera, a diarrheal disease that, if left untreated ...