Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is a bacterium causing the disease cholera. It is part of the genus Vibrio, in the family Vibrionaceae. Like all Proteobacteria, it is gram negative. V. cholerae can respire aerobically if oxygen is present and can switch to anaerobic respiration if oxygen is not present (fermentation).
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| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria
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| Order: | Vibrionales
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| Vibrio cholerae Pacini 1854
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Vibrio Cholerae Media
Cholera toxin interrupting regulation of adenyl cyclase inside the cell causing efflux of water and sodium into the intestinal lumen.
Children in Mpape community play in a waste water drainage area. This drainage was the suspected source of contamination of the well water that led to the cholera outbreak investigated by Nigeria FELTP residents in April 2014. Two samples collected from home wells around this drainage tested positive for Vibrio cholerae.
Diagram of the bacterium, V. cholerae
Yellow colored (sucrose-fermenting) colonies of Vibrio cholerae on TCBS agar.
Transmission electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae that has been negatively stained.
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