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Vibrio cholerae

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Vibrio chol·er·ae (kl-r)
n.
A bacterium that causes Asiatic cholera in humans; Koch's bacillus.
Vibrio cholerae,
the species of comma-shaped, motile bacillus that is the cause of cholera.
Vibrio cholerae
Infectious disease The Vibrio that produces the heat-tolerant exotoxin which causes cholera Epidemiology Transmitted through poorly treated water supplies Clinical Abdominal cramping, diarrhea Management Rehydration is more important than antibiotics. See Broad Street pump, Cholera toxin.
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The disease is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and is spread by consuming contaminated food or water.
Cholera kills 59 in Tanzania in two months by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The Vibrio cholerae bacteria did not include dangerous strains of the sort that cause deadly epidemics.
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To the Editor: Vibrio cholerae O1, the causative agent of cholera, has 2 biotypes (classical and El Tor), which have traditionally been distinguished by phenotypic tests and by genetic differences in the major toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) gene, the tcpA allele of the TCP cluster (1), the rstR region (regulatory region for phage lysogeny) of CTX phages (2), the type of cholera toxin (CT) produced, and the infection pattern of the disease they cause.
Outbreaks caused by new variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, India by Taneja, Neelam; Mishra, Arti; Sangar, Garima; Singh, Gagandeep; Sharma, Meera / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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