Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

David Ussery discusses using Machine Learning methods to predict the pathogenicity of a bacterial infection based on genome ...

Improvements in water and sanitation should reduce cholera risk though the associations between cholera and specific water and sanitation access measures remain unclear. We estimated the association ...

Background and aims: Cholera toxin B subunit (CT-B) is a powerful modulator of immune responses. The authors have previously demonstrated that oral administration of recombinant CT-B (rCT-B) is able ...

REVIEW ARTICLE. Ballast water: a review of the impact on the world public health. Takahashi CK I; Lourenço NGGS I; Lopes TF II; Rall VLM III; Lopes CAM III. I São Paulo State University, UNESP, São ...

• Cholera bacteria might not cause illness in all the people who are exposed to them, but they still pass the bacteria in their stool, which can contaminate food and water sources. • While most people ...

We're in the Valais region of Switzerland and tonight, for dinner, our guide announces with a flourish, you will all be having the cholera. Can't choose where to go? Let our travel experts help ...

In essence, the WASA lineage of cholera bacteria possesses an expanded array of anti-phage defence mechanisms, enabling it to withstand both ICP1 and other viral threats. Understanding how epidemic ...

A single dose of Euvichol-Plus provided substantial protection against medically attended cholera for at least 36 months after vaccination in this cholera-endemic setting. Although the evidence ...

The bacterium is named after Daniel E. Salmon, an American veterinary pathologist from the late 19th century, according to the Food and Drug Administration. While the bacterium bears his name, there ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they can contain pathogens and are highly resistant to treatment. Chemists ...