Vibrio cholerae is widely known to be the etiological agent of the life-threatening diarrheal
disease cholera. Cholera remains a major scourge in many develo** countries, infecting …

Background The search for new antimicrobials should take into account drug resistance
phenomenon. Medicinal plants are known as sources of potent antimicrobial compounds …

The value of Bacteroidales genetic markers and fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to predict the
occurrence of waterborne pathogens was evaluated in ambient waters along the central …

The diversity of microbial cells is reflected in differences in cell size and shape, motility,
mechanisms of cell division, pathogenicity or adaptation to different environmental niches …

Background The continuous emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria drastically
reduced the efficacy of our antibiotic armory and consequently, increased the frequency of …

Pathogenic non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae strains can cause sporadic outbreaks of
cholera worldwide. In this study, multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) of seven housekee** …

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease typically caused by O1 serogroup strains of Vibrio
cholerae. The pathogenicity of all pandemic V. cholerae O1 strains relies on two critical …

Vibrio cholerae is an aerobic, sucrose fermentative Gram-negative bacterium that generally
prevails in the environment. Pathogenic V. cholerae is well-known as causative agent of …

Shigella spp.(Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii and Shigella sonnei)
cause bacillary dysentery (shigellosis), which is characterized by bloody mucous diarrhoea …

During the summer of 2006, several wound infections–of which three were fatal–caused by
Vibrio cholerae were reported from patients who had been exposed to water from the Baltic …