Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.

Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria that ... bacterial infection or animal products containing the bacteria. Vibrio cholerae is a type of bacteria that causes cholera.

Richard Empson stands on an artificial right leg after his battle with vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that shows ...

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

The one that seemed to survive the best was Vibrio natriegens. These bacteria were discovered in a salt marsh, and their primary claim to fame is an impressive growth rate, with a population being ...

while risk-prone bacteria sacrifice some part of their biomass in the hope of getting it back later when they swim into a particle. Example movie of tracked cells of Vibrio splendidus FF-500 in ...

But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war—one that could shape the course of pandemics. The researchers looked at Peruvian cholera strains from the 1990s ...

This comes after a fit 81-year-old man from the Kaaimans River, which is a few kilometers from the Garden Route National Park, died from the vibro vulnificus bacteria after swimming in the ocean in ...