Vibrio cholerae (also Kommabacillus) is a motile gram negative curved-rod shaped bacterium with a polar flagellum that causes cholera in humans. V. cholerae and other species of the genus Vibrio belong to the gamma subdivision of the Proteobacteria.
There are two major strains of V. cholerae, classic and El Tor, and numerous other serogroups.
V. cholerae was first isolated as the cause of cholera by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, but...
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Vibrio cholerae (also Kommabacillus) is a motile gram negative curved-rod shaped bacterium with a polar flagellum that causes cholera in humans. V. cholerae and other species of the genus Vibrio belong to the gamma subdivision of the Proteobacteria.
There are two major strains of V. cholerae, classic and El Tor, and numerous other serogroups.
V. cholerae was first isolated as the cause of cholera by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, but his discovery was not widely known until Robert Koch, working independently thirty years later, publicized the knowledge and the means of fighting the disease.
The 4.0 Mbp genome of N16961, an O1 serogroup, El Tor biotype, 7th pandemic strain of V. cholerae, is comprised of two circular chromosomes of unequal size that are predicted to encode a total of 3,885 genes. The genomic sequence of this representative strain has furthered our understanding of the genetic and phenotypic diversity found within the species V. cholerae. Sequence data have...
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