Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Vaccine study confirms sensitivity of cholera test

Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures for detecting cholera has come under question. Researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases investigated this claim using a 'vaccine probe' analysis ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How cholera bacteria make people so sick

The enormous adaptability of the cholera bacterium explains why it is able to claim so many victims. Professor Ariane Briegel from the Leiden Institute of Biology has now discovered that this adaptability is due to rapid ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Responding to cholera before it strikes

Research by University of Maryland microbiologist Rita Colwell is enabling a new British-led international aid effort to predict and stop potential epidemics of the disease cholera before they happen.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Fast-acting cholera vaccine could curb outbreaks

A tricked-out cholera vaccine starts protecting against the deadly disease within a day, experiments in rabbits suggest. The rapid protection offered by this designer vaccine may one day limit the spread of cholera outbreaks, ...

Medical research

Turning the tables on the cholera pathogen

Recent cholera outbreaks in regions that are ravaged by war, struck by natural disasters, or simply lack basic sanitation, such as Yemen or Haiti, are making the development of new and more effective interventions a near-term ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera hotspots found at Uganda's borders and lakes

Uganda is among the countries is sub-Saharan Africa where cholera remains a recurring problem, despite advances in science and technology for prevention, detection and treatment of the infectious disease. Now, researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Risk of cholera epidemics estimated with new rule-book

Cholera has repeatedly traveled out of Asia to cause epidemics in Africa and Latin America, an international research team has found. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Institut Pasteur in France, and collaborators ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers predict when cholera epidemic in Yemen would peak

Hokkaido University scientists developed a new mathematical model which accurately forecast that a devastating cholera epidemic in Yemen would peak by early July, the 26th week of 2017, and the cumulative incidence would ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Collaborating laboratories combat cholera

Anne Woodbrey, a doctoral student, is the linchpin connecting three Dartmouth laboratories that are collaborating on a treatment for cholera—an acute diarrheal disease that can kill within hours if not treated. A recent ...

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