Cholera is a deadly bacterial disease that kills about 95,000 people every year. Vibrio cholerae bacteria infect cells in the small intestine, which the bacteria can do in part due to their ...

Cholera is a major global health problem, causing approximately 100,000 deaths annually, about half of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Although early-generation parenteral cholera vaccines were ...

Vibrio cholerae, the agent of cholera, forms biofilms that embed bacterial cells in a self-produced matrix of exopolysaccharides, proteins and extracellular DNA. In aquatic reservoirs biofilm ...

The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been underestimated in Africa, which carries the largest burden of the disease. In a ...