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<i>Vibrio cholerae</i> is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. A disease affecting 2.8 million people per year and resulting in the deaths of 91,000, cholera is most common in areas with high population density and low sanitation quality.< | <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. A disease affecting 2.8 million people per year and resulting in the deaths of 91,000, cholera is most common in areas with high population density and low sanitation quality.<sup>[1] [2]</sup> | ||
==Colonization of the Human Small Intestine== | ==Colonization of the Human Small Intestine== | ||
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<sup>[1]</sup> Reidl, J. and K.E. Klose, [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12069878 <i> Vibrio cholerae and cholera: out of the water and into the host.</i>] Fems Microbiology Reviews, 2002. <b>26</b>(2): p. 125-139. | |||
<br><sup>[2]</sup> Ali, M., et al., [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461716 <i>The global burden of cholera.</i>] Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012. <b>90</b>(3): p. 209-218. | |||
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Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera. A disease affecting 2.8 million people per year and resulting in the deaths of 91,000, cholera is most common in areas with high population density and low sanitation quality.[1] [2]
Colonization of the Human Small Intestine
ToxR and ToxT Regulon
Toxin-Coregulating Pilus
References
[1] Reidl, J. and K.E. Klose, Vibrio cholerae and cholera: out of the water and into the host. Fems Microbiology Reviews, 2002. 26(2): p. 125-139.
[2] Ali, M., et al., The global burden of cholera. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012. 90(3): p. 209-218.
Edited by Tina Solvik, a student of Suzanne Kern in BIOL168L (Microbiology) in The Keck Science Department of the Claremont Colleges Spring 2015.
