Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

Vibrio infections often begin when people eat raw or undercooked seafood. A man died in Florida earlier this month after eating a contaminated raw oyster. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has now presented ...

Vibrio cholerae presents a unique model of bacterial genome organisation through its bipartite genome, comprising two distinct chromosomes that replicate in a carefully orchestrated manner. The ...

The African CDC has recently warned of a surge in cholera cases across the continent. Cholera, caused by certain strains of V. cholerae, is a waterborne infection that spreads rapidly, particularly in ...

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) ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Health is urging residents to take precautions to prevent infection from Vibrio vulnificus after seeing a higher number of cases and deaths than ...

Two cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, were reported near Jacksonville, Florida, resulting in one death. Eleven cases and four deaths from Vibrio vulnificus have been ...