The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been ...

The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has a defense system against bacteriophages called CBASS. This phage defense mechanism makes the cholera pathogen sensitive to antibiotics. Bacteria have an immune system ...

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) ...

A team of scientists and physicians at Mass General Brigham has developed a single-dose oral cholera vaccine and tested it in a phase 1 clinical trial, with results published in The Lancet Infectious ...

Separation of the two Vibrio cholerae bacteria revealed in the 22399x magnified scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, 2005. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Janice Haney Carr.

Clinical trial shows promising results for PanChol, a single-dose oral vaccine aimed at the up to 4 million annual cholera cases worldwide. A team of scientists and physicians at Mass General Brigham ...

Bacteria have an immune system that protects them against viruses known as bacteriophages. A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg has now shown how this immune system enhances ...

In regions where cholera is an endemic disease causing periodic seasonal outbreaks, the bacterial pathogen (Vibrio cholerae) lives between outbreaks in aquatic ecosystems such as coastal estuaries.

After deploying life-saving cholera-prediction systems in Africa and Asia, a University of Florida researcher is turning his attention to the pathogen-plagued waters off Florida’s Gulf Coast. In the ...

Cholera is caused by a water-borne bacterial pathogen called Vibrio cholerae that may be transmitted through the consumption of contaminated water or food. The rapidly developing, very contagious ...