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• Risk factors early in the 2010 cholera epidemic, Haiti

  Authors:Katherine A. O'Connor, Emily Cartwright, Anagha Loharikar, Janell Routh, Joanna Gaines, Marie-Delivrance Bernadette Fouche, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20111,517 words Article 1510LOn October 19, 2010, the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) was notified of increased cases of acute watery diarrhea resulting in death among adults in Artibonite Department. Within 2 days, MSPP's...

• Severe acute watery diarrhoea with cases positive for Vibrio cholerae, Viet Nam/Diarrhee liquide aigue severe avec cas positifs pour Vibrio cholerae, Viet Nam

  From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 83, Issue 18)

  May 2, 2008614 words Report 1410LBetween 5 March and 22 April 2008, the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam reported 2490 cases of severe acute watery diarrhoea, including 377 cases positive for Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera. The...

• A Type VI Secretion System Is Involved in Pseudomonas fluorescens Bacterial Competition

  Authors:Victorien Decoin, Corinne Barbey, Dorian Bergeau, Xavier Latour, Marc G. J. Feuilloley, Nicole Orange, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 14, 20147,424 words Article 1370LAuthor(s): Victorien Decoin, Corinne Barbey, Dorian Bergeau, Xavier Latour, Marc G. J. Feuilloley, Nicole Orange, Annabelle Merieau * Introduction Bacteria have developed an arsenal of mechanisms, including...

• Synaptic Connections between Endomorphin 2-Immunoreactive Terminals and [mu]-Opioid Receptor-Expressing Neurons in the Sacral Parasympathetic Nucleus of the Rat

  Authors:Xiao Liang Dou, Rong Liang Qin, Juan Qu, Yong Hui Liao, Ya cheng Lu, Ting Zhang, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 3, 20136,943 words Article 1410LAuthor(s): Xiao Liang Dou 1, Rong Liang Qin 1, Juan Qu 2, Yong Hui Liao 2, Ya cheng Lu 2, Ting Zhang 2, Chen Shao 1,*, Yun Qing Li 2,* Introduction The micturition reflex is an autonomic reflex that is mediated by...

• Tracking Cholesterol/Sphingomyelin-Rich Membrane Domains with the Ostreolysin A-mCherry Protein

  Authors:Matej Skocaj, Natasa Resnik, Maja Grundner, Katja Ota, Nejc Rojko, Vesna Hodnik, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 24, 20149,400 words Article 1620LAuthor(s): Matej Skocaj 1, Natasa Resnik 2, Maja Grundner 3, Katja Ota 1, Nejc Rojko 1, Vesna Hodnik 1, Gregor Anderluh 1,4, Andrzej Sobota 5, Peter Macek 1, Peter Veranic 2,*, Kristina Sepcic 1,* Introduction...

• Activation of proinflammatory response in human intestinal epithelial cells following Vibrio cholerae infection through PI3K/Akt pathway

  Authors:Arunava Bandyopadhaya, Swati Bhowmick, and Keya ChaudhuriFrom:Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 55, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20095,817 words Report 1450LVibrio cholerae activates proinflammatory response in cultured intestinal epithelial cells. In this study, we demonstrate that V. cholerae 0395 infection of intestinal epithelial cells results in the activation of Akt....

• Production of pentameric cholera toxin B subunit in Escherichia coli

  Authors:Farida Dakterzada, Ashraf Mohabati Mobarez, Mehryar Habibi Roudkenar, and Mehdi ForouzandehFrom:Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  April-June 20123,040 words Report 1390LCholera toxin B subunit (CTB) has been extensively studied as an immunogen, adjuvant, and inducer of oral tolerance in many investigations. Production of CTB has been carried out in the bacterial, plant, insect and...

• Screening and quantification of anti-quorum sensing and antibiofilm activities of phyllosphere bacteria against biofilm forming bacteria.

  Authors:Nadine Amabel Theodora, Vania Dominika, and Diana Elizabeth WaturangiFrom:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 7, 20192,545 words Article 1440LObjective The objectives of this research were to screen anti-quorum sensing activity of phyllosphere bacteria and quantify their antibiofilm activity against biofilm forming bacteria (Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus...

• A 102-year-old bacterial culture reveals a microbe's foul methods.

  From:Nature (Vol. 568, Issue 7752) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2019294 words Brief article 1550LA strain of cholera bacterium collected during the First World War is sequenced after decades in storage. A strain of cholera bacterium collected during the First World War is sequenced after decades in storage....

• Dominant Vibrio cholerae phage exhibits lysis inhibition sensitive to disruption by a defensive phage satellite.

  Authors:Stephanie G Hays and Kimberley D SeedFrom:eLife (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 24, 202018,368 words Article 1550LBacteria, bacteriophages that prey upon them, and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) compete in dynamic environments, evolving strategies to sense the milieu. The first discovered environmental sensing by phages, lysis...

• Standard WHO-ORS versus reduced-osmolarity ORS in the management of cholera patients

  Authors:Sri Pandam Pulungsih, Narain H. Punjabi, Kustedy Rafli, Atti Rifajati, Swiandy Kumala, Cyrus H. Simanjuntak, et al.From:Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20063,818 words Clinical report The study compared the safety and efficacy of an oral rehydration salts (ORS) solution, containing 75 mmol/L of sodium and glucose each, with the standard World Health Organization (WHO)-ORS solution in the management...

• Occurrence of ferredoxin:NAD.sup.+ oxidoreductase activity and its ion specificity in several Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria

  Authors:Verena Hess, Rene Gallegos, J Andrew Jones, Blanca Barquera, Michael H Malamy, and Volker MullerFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 11, 20166,277 words Article 1470LA ferredoxin:NAD.sup.+ oxidoreductase was recently discovered as a redox-driven ion pump in the anaerobic, acetogenic bacterium Acetobacterium woodii. The enzyme is assumed to be encoded by the rnf genes. Since these...

• Structural Insights into RbmA, a Biofilm Scaffolding Protein of V. Cholerae

  From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 5, 20135,570 words Article 1430LV. cholerae can form sessile biofilms associated with abiotic surfaces, cyanobacteria, zoo-plankton, mollusks, or crustaceans. Along with the vibrio polysaccharide, secreted proteins of the rbm gene cluster are key to...

• Mucosal Targeting of a BoNT/A Subunit Vaccine Adjuvanted with a Mast Cell Activator Enhances Induction of BoNT/A Neutralizing Antibodies in Rabbits

  Authors:Herman F. Staats, Jeffrey R. Fielhauer, Afton L. Thompson, Alice A. Tripp, Ashley E. Sobel, Massimo Maddaloni, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 27, 20118,715 words Article 1730LBackground We previously reported that the immunogenicity of Hc[beta]tre, a botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT/A) immunogen, was enhanced by fusion to an epithelial cell binding domain, Ad2F, when nasally delivered to mice...

• Studies of Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions in Bacteria Using Renilla Luciferase Complementation Are Undermined by Nonspecific Enzyme Inhibition

  Authors:Stavroula K. Hatzios, Simon Ringgaard, Brigid M. Davis, and Matthew K. WaldorFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 15, 20126,032 words Article 1570LThe luciferase protein fragment complementation assay is a powerful tool for studying protein-protein interactions. Two inactive fragments of luciferase are genetically fused to interacting proteins, and when these two...

• Flipping the switch

  Authors:Xavier Pierrat and Alexandre PersatFrom:eLife (Vol. 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 19, 20171,282 words Article 1400LA structural switch controls the architecture of Vibrio cholerae biofilms by mediating the interactions between two matrix components. Byline: Xavier Pierrat, Alexandre Persat...

• From hospitalization records to surveillance: The use of local patient profiles to characterize cholera in Vellore, India

  Authors:Melissa S. Cruz, Tania M. AlarconFalconi, Meghan A. Hartwick, Aishwarya Venkat, Hanna Y. Ehrlich, Shalini Anandan, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 18, 20178,642 words Report 1480LDespite availability of high quality medical records, health care systems often do not have the resources or tools to utilize these data efficiently. Yet, hospital-based, laboratory-confirmed records may pave the way...

• Safety and Immunogenicity of a Live Oral Recombinant Cholera Vaccine VA1.4: A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial in Healthy Adults in a Cholera Endemic Area in Kolkata, India

  Authors:Suman Kanungo, Bandana Sen, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Dipika Sur, Byomkesh Manna, Gururaja P. Pazhani, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 1, 20146,265 words Article 1500LBackground A live oral cholera vaccine VA 1.4 developed from a non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strain using ctxB gene insertion was further developed into a clinical product following cGMP and was evaluated...

• Genetic variation of Vibrio cholerae during outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2010-2011

  Authors:Shah M. Rashed, Andrew S. Azman, Munirul Alam, Shan Li, David A. Sack, J. Glenn Morris, Jr., et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20144,251 words Article 1380LCholera remains a major public health problem. To compare the relative contribution of strains from the environment with strains isolated from patients during outbreaks, we performed multilocus variable tandem repeat...

• Oral Administration of Cholera Toxin B-Insulin Conjugates Protects NOD Mice From Autoimmune Diabetes by Inducing [CD4.sup.+] Regulatory T-cells

  Authors:Corinne Ploix, Isabelle Bergerot, Annie Durand, Cecil Czerkinsky, Jan Holmgren, and Charles ThivoletFrom:Diabetes (Vol. 48, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19995,968 words Article Restoration of peripheral tolerance to target autoantigens during autoimmune diseases has met with several limitations because of the limited efficacy of this approach in an already immune host. To optimize the...