Vibrio cholerae

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Eubacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria[1]
Class: Gamma Proteobacteria
Order: Vibrionales
Family: Vibrionaceae
Genus: Vibrio
Species: cholerae
Binomial name
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.

  1. 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.