When cholera is mentioned, most people envisage contaminated water supplies and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. Yet ...

(Image credit: Fitnat Yildiz and Kyle Floyd) Free-swimming cholera bacteria are much less infectious than bacteria in biofilms, aggregates of bacterial cells embedded in a sticky matrix that form on ...

Bacteria harness the power of communities. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered that the bacterial pathogen that causes cholera forms a novel type of bacterial community on ...

S ince 1961, there has been an ongoing cholera pandemic, with a rise in cases in 2022. Cholera, caused by the bacterium ...

Cholera bacteria aren't just battling antibiotics ... One such system, WonAB, triggers an "abortive infection" response that kills infected cells before phages can reproduce, sacrificing a few ...

the bacterium that causes cholera. GSMM is a method that integrates omics data, such as genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic information to create an overarching model of how various ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water ...

This toxin punctures holes in target cells’ protective membranes. The researchers say that it’s not yet clear whether V. cholerae wields these biofilms during actual cholera infections ...

But the WASA cholera strain came prepared. It uses a smart system called GrwAB to spot and destroy viruses with modified or camouflaged DNA. Think of it as a high-tech virus scanner built into the ...

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused ... and replacing the ongoing watery discharges containing flecks of cells and mucus (“rice-water stool”). Nearly every patient survived.