A team of scientists and physicians at Mass General Brigham has developed a single-dose oral cholera vaccine and tested it in ...

Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and kills if untreated, can be defeated with a diet high in ...

A team of scientists and physicians at Mass General Brigham has developed a single-dose oral cholera vaccine and tested it in a phase 1 clinical trial, with results published in The Lancet Infectious ...

The cost of foodborne illnesses in the United States was almost $75 billion in 2023, according to recently released data. The ...

Previously, it was assumed that bacteria form biofilms to defend and protect themselves. Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has discovered that the bacterial ...

Bacteria harness the power of communities. A research group at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has now discovered that the bacterial pathogen that causes cholera forms a novel type of bacterial ...

The deadly bacterium behind cholera epidemics spends only a fraction of its life infecting humans. Most of the time, Vibrio cholerae lurks in estuaries and other semisalty aquatic habitats.

New research from EPFL, Switzerland, offers fresh insights into how some gut bacteria protect themselves against deadly cholera infection opening doors for the design of probiotic strains that can ...

Cholera, which afflicts hundreds of thousands of people a year in Bangladesh, is easy to prevent with simple materials, says Hermann Feldmeier, a professor at the Center for Humanities and Health ...

Like other organisms, bacteria have to take nutrients up from the environment and use them in various metabolic processes, which have long been thought to be controlled by gene expression. But the ...

EPFL scientists have discovered that predatory bacteria like the cholera pathogen can steal up to 150 genes in one go from their neighbors. The study sheds light on one of the most fundamental ...