Background and Methods Cholera remains a significant threat to global public health with
an estimated 100,000 deaths per year. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions …

The Vibrionaceae, which encompasses several potential pathogens, including V. cholerae,
the causative agent of cholera, and V. vulnificus, the deadliest seafood-borne pathogen, are …

This Addendum to the second edition of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality contains
reviews of a number of pathogens that occur widely in water-Aeromonas and Legionella …

The toxR gene of Vibrio cholerae encodes a transmembrane, DNA-binding protein that
activates transcription of the cholera toxin operon and a gene (tcpA) for the major subunit of …

The origin of cholera has been elusive, even though scientific evidence clearly shows it is a
waterborne disease. However, standard bacteriological procedures for isolation of the …

The transposon TnphoA was used to generate fusions between phoA, the gene for alkaline
phosphatase (PhoA), and genes encoding proteins that are secreted by Vibrio cholerae …

Vibrios are among the most common bacteria that inhabit surface waters throughout the
world and are responsible for a number of severe infections both in humans and animals …

Abstract Chitin is the (1→ 4)-β-linked homopolymer of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (Fig. 1). The
individual polymer chains can be thought of as helices, as each sugar unit is inverted with …

Nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems are widely used to model systems across the
sciences and engineering. Such models are natural to formulate and can be analyzed …

This review of the literature concerns the gut microbiota of aquatic invertebrates and
highlights the questions and processes that merit attention if an understanding of the role of …