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| image = V_cholerae.jpg
| regnum = Eubacteria
| phylum = Proteobacteria<ref name=VCGMB>Vibrio cholerae: Genomics and Molecular Biology. Caister Academic Press Edited by Edited by: Shah M. Faruque and G. Balakrish Nair International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh and National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata - 700 010, India. Published July 2008. </ref>
| classis = Gamma Proteobacteria
| ordo =  Vibrionales
| familia = [[Vibrionaceae]]
| genus = Vibrio
| species = cholerae
| binomial = ''Vibrio cholerae''
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''Vibrio cholerae'' is a [[Gram-negative]], curved rod-shaped [[bacterium]] that has a single polar [[flagellum]]. It is an [[aerobic]] organism and thrives best in [[alkaline]] media,  The organism causes a major epidemic gastrointestinal disease, [[cholera]].

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