Sentences with phrase «causes cholera»

A decade ago, Rita Colwell and colleagues at the University of Maryland discovered that Vibrio cholerae, a waterborne bacterium that causes cholera, also becomes dormant.

Among these are members of the Vibrio family, which includes the species that causes cholera.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

Dutch researchers say the new strain arose when the bacterium that usually causes cholera borrowed genes from a normally harmless strain.

Instead, another bacterium the team looked at, a close relative of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, has evolved a motor with only intermediate power.

Until now, Vibrio cholerae O1 was the only organism causing cholera epidemics.

About 80 per cent of the Anlo Beach town is currently covered in water, and NADMO fears the insanitary conditions in the area could cause a cholera outbreak in the midst of the flood.

Another researcher, Richard A. Finkelstein, said that participation in American Society of Microbiology (ASM) meetings supported his efforts to isolate and sequence toxins that cause cholera, a deadly intestinal disease.

Including Vibrio species, some of which can cause cholera or food poisoning.

Richard Finkelstein had isolated the toxin from Vibrio cholerae causing cholera.

Climate change may also cause shifts in the distribution and abundance of pathogens such as those that cause cholera.

Not exact matches

For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

Cholera is an intestinal infection that is caused by a bacteria called Vibrio cholerae which is found in contaminated water in places with contaminated water and poor sanitation.

The symptoms and treatment of cholera caused by the new strain (designated V. cholerae O139) are largely the same as for «normal» cholera.

In rural areas, where 10 % of people have adequate sanitation, people often defecate in waterways like the Meye, and cholera — which causes explosive diarrhea — drove more people to use the river as a toilet.

When oral hydration doesn't work for the diarrheal disease, cholera, caused by the comma - shaped bacterium Vibrio cholera, can sometimes be treated by intravenous fluids and antibiotics.

Neither cause long - lasting immunity, so children in countries with cholera aren't routinely vaccinated, meaning the market was small and not much was made.

As a result, cholera has spread throughout Haiti, and as of 29 November, the outbreak had caused 1721 deaths.

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

And at Boston College, biochemist David Newburg and his colleagues have found that another oligosaccharide called 2» - fucosyllactose is effective at warding off Campylobacter, cholera, and enteropathogenic E. coli — a frequent cause of diarrhea — in animal models.

One aid group working in Haiti is turning to SMS text messaging to ensure Haitians are keeping their drinking water free of cholera - causing bacteria

While the new discovery confirms scientists» ideas about the evolution of disease, the worrying implication is that the same process could cause other virulent strains of cholera to emerge at any time.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

It is a powder - blue plastic tube — much thicker than an ordinary straw — containing filters that make water teeming with typhoid -, cholera - and diarrhea - causing microorganisms drinkable.

So when a large number of cholera cases caused by a new strain named O139 started turning up in India, WHO officials were understandably alarmed.

Chlorine effectively kills a large variety of microbial waterborne pathogens, including those that can cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and Legionnaires» disease.

However, some Gram - negatives cause illnesses such as meningitis, plague, Legionnaires disease, cholera and food poisoning.

In Latin America, the team not only focused on the 7PET strains that cause epidemics, but other strains of Vibrio cholerae that cause sporadic low level disease.

This allowed the researchers to uncover that different strains of Vibrio cholerae can be assigned different risks for causing large outbreaks.

The results of two studies, published in Science, present a new «rule - book» to estimate the risk of different cholera strains causing an epidemic.

Cholera is caused when the bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine, resulting in severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can result in dehydration and death.

It found that while cholera was the main source of illness, rotavirus remained a «significant cause» of diarrheal disease in children under five in Haiti.

«So it is gratifying to see our global health community with our Haitian colleagues rallying to the cause and providing the many insights we need to not just eliminate cholera but to conquer a wide range of water - borne diseases.»

Against conventional wisdom, they discovered cholera to be caused by a waterborne microbe.

He studied two types of disease - causing bacteria, Vibrio cholerae — the infectious agent behind cholera — and Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause various infections such as abscesses and hospital infections.

Epidemiological and DNA studies have shown that the outbreak was caused by the «El Tor» strain of Vibrio cholerae bacteria probably carried by Nepalese peacekeepers.

Such «non-toxigenic» cholera can cause severe diarrhoea, but not epidemics, says Colin Stine of the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore.

But the new cholera causes severe disease in all age groups.

The new finding, announced today in the journal Science, opens up a novel approach to designing drugs to fight other bacteria, such as those that cause pneumonia, ear infections, cholera and Lyme disease.

And we look at disease that cause a lot of fluid loss through diarrhea — so, for example, take cholera and who dies with cholera.

The intestinal infection caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae can rapidly spread when human waste mixes with water.

Initial testing suggested an infectious bacterial disease such as avian cholera caused the deaths, but findings released on Tuesday showed West Nile virus was the culprit, McFarlane said.

Among the arrivals they looked at were two strains of the bacterium that causes human cholera, Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139.

The results of two studies, published in Science (10 November), present a new «rule - book» to estimate the risk of different cholera strains causing an epidemic.

Cholera, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, produces watery diarrhea that can lead to dehydration and death.

Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae.

Although no cases of cholera were reported in Alabama, ballast - water samples collected later contained the epidemic - causing strain of cholera, and this incident highlighted the capability of ballast water to transport pathogens.

The bacterium that causes the human disease cholera can be transported in ballast water.

In addition to havoc caused by floods and mudslides, El Niño can cause secondary effects; for example, El Niño was implicated in increased cases of cholera in Peru in 1991 and 1998.

Another example related to improperly treated or untreated sewage is Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes the intestinal infection cholera.