Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered what gives Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, the ability to colonize the human gut. The researchers found that a ...

Louis Pasteur's 1879 chicken cholera experiments, though often simplified, revealed a crucial principle: weakened pathogens ...

Nigeria is facing a growing outbreak of cholera, which has already taken about 39 lives and infected 4204 people. The ...

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. When we ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study. Researchers have found that, in the Ganges Delta, cholera bacteria rapidly gain ...

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.

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

University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences For thousands of years, the highly infectious disease cholera has been one of the most feared infections in the world. As it ...

When we think of cholera, most of us picture contaminated water and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war-one that ...

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of deaths reported worldwide each year. Caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, ...

A small string of nucleic acids decides if the cholera bacterium can infect humans or live in the environment. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research ...

A small string of nucleic acids decides if the cholera bacterium can infect humans or live in the environment. Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of pediatric mortality worldwide. V.